Off subject but I need help

[Karl Auer]

On Tue, 2019-07-16 at 13:42 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 July 2019 12:06:43 Peter wrote:
> > My telephone and internet services have been converted to NBN.
> Vote with your wallet, and get connected to a service that works.

For those not in Oz, the short short story is that one government came
up with a great idea (a national broadband network), but the then
opposition perverted the idea into a parody of itself, won government,
and "delivered" a shockingly underpowered, sad little shadow of what
might have been, condemning Australia to being at least ten to fifteen
years behind the times or until until it is inevitably replaced with
what it should have been in the first place. Whichever is longer.

One key aspect of this pathetic system is that the then incumbents,
including the mightiest, most advanced network in the country,
Telstra's, were forced, by law, not to compete with the NBN. Why?
Because the NBN was supposed to be *profitable* and to pay back its
cost. These tiny-minded bureaucrats wanted to make this network
independently *profitable*, unable to see that the benefits to every
sector of industry and society of having such a network would vastly
outweigh the direct cost. The requirement that the network pay for
itself, and provide a direct return on investment, has absolutely
dominated every meaningful decision around it, and completely crippled
the network - which ironically means it will never, ever be profitable.

So for most people, voting with their wallet is not possible.

There ya go - now you are up to speed. Which on the NBN is not
guaranteed to be more than 12Mb/s. Welcome to the lucky country.

Regards, K.

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