For some reason people are upset about this. Why, I ask them, why? Imagine if Australia took as much care of all it’s other needy people. I mean, Telstra WAS Australia just a short while ago, so it’s only fitting that Australia take care of its offspring.
A $100Bn is nothing for the priceless wonder which is a century old copper network. Think of all the men who dug massive big holes in the earth to extract all that copper and then built giant machines to squeeze it into wires. These days that damn fibre is built with hardly any people around, just robots.
Whats the value in that? My spotify music sounds much nicer over copper, so thank you Australia. And who wants to jam a doctor down the wire, copper or fibre? This isn’t Animal Farm, this is Australia, where you have a friendly doctor at every corner and the emergency rooms have barely a 6 hour wait before they tell you to come back tomorrow.
Perhaps the government can reimagine the NBN as a sort of heirloom institute. Now that they have preserved copper, there must be other essential things out there the NBN can save. Like coal plants — no one wants to loose them right? Perhaps the NBN can contract to buy the output at a good price for the next 100 years to power all this power hungry copper?
I have always thought that the world is too quick to dump it’s old wonders. I mean, who doesn’t want horse drawn carriages back? Has anyone surveyed all those coffee places in Surry Hills? There are BILLIONS to be made if the NBN stops this new fangled bus and car system and bring back the horses. As a bonus instead of finding civets to eat and shit coffee beans the horses can do that, right where they are most needed.
I don’t know why, but this reminds me of this recent article on corruption in western countries, even though this is obviously just a straight forward business transaction for the benefit of all: http://www.monbiot.com/2015/03/18/hard-graft/
