Archive for April, 2009
Queensland Government lead the world in embracing CreativeCommons for Information Licensing (GILF)
Posted by Laurei in Australian Issues, Intellectual Property, Queensland on April 30th, 2009
This is big news for Intellectual property, big news for Queensland, Australia, and big news for creative commons.
No its not an older MILF; GILF is the Government of Queensland, Australia’s world leading Information Licencing programme which represents a great leap forward in Government policy in making information available with transparent legality.
GILF is another brainchild of the already awesome Queensland Spatial Information Council, or QSIC (Government department where geographical, cartographical, and IT knowledge combine).
Private sector should get in line or get out
In reply to the article “AAPT Left out of the NBN Discussions” 23 April 2009 – zdnet.com.au”
Who cares if Optus thinks the NBN is the best thing since sliced bread, and who cares if AAPT won’t touch it with a barge pole because FTTH in Broad’s view is “irrational”.
It’s not the point; the Government isn’t here to curtail to the needs of big business when the private sector wants something directly out of line with what is best for Australia.
A Fiber to the Home National Broadband Network is by far the best thing for Australia, now and for the future.
Optus and AAPT obviously have vastly differing opinions because of only one thing, they only exist because they are motivated by profits for their shareholders, and that’s obviously, simply and unarguably the case.
So what if the NBN doesn’t make money for AAPT? It doesn’t have to! It doesn’t have to make money for anyone at all in the traditional short sighted dollar sign way of seeing things. The NBN is a national civil infrastructure which will put us years ahead as a nation and keep us there in the future with almost no further upgrades to the network needed- unlike anything the private sector has come up with.
Big business; realise you must come inline with what is best for the nation; and as the tide of national need changes, you must change with it or be left behind with an unfit business model, trying to twist the Goverment’s arm to spare you from a natural extinction – and even worse trying to drag the Nation with you by forcing us to use your uneconomical services out of love, something which if you had for the nation you wouldn’t be in this mess.
Replies to Malcolm Turnbull’s Op-Ed
Posted by Laurei in FOC news commentary, NBN on April 21st, 2009
This is a comment to Malcom Turnbull’s op-ed in the Australian on April the 14th, but was not able to be posted because the website of the Australian encountered “errors” trying to post it.
Malcolm
You say that The FTTH NBN risks competition from Telstra offering “higher and higher speeds”, don’t confuse people to think they are “higher” Malcolm – you know the speeds of copper are no-where near that of fiber don’t you.
You say that Telstra’s Melbourne network will be 100Mbps, but the truth is they say it will average of 70Mbps up to 100 Mbps downstream and up to 2Mbps upstream.
And you know that Telstra have long been known to over estimate the speeds of users connections don’t you? ..Retailing broadband for a certain price, forcing people into 24 month contract when they know full well that they can never or don’t plan to achieve these speeds. I consider this criminal, but for lack of legislation they are continually allowed to do this.
How fair is “The Australian’s” coverage?
Posted by Laurei in Australian Issues, FOC news commentary, NBN on April 27th, 2009
Comment on The Australian Article “Broadband’s Losers Could Vote Labour Out” April 27 2009
Let’s get to the point shall we? Broadband is at least 10 years behind in this country and we need a FTTH NBN like yesterday. Before the Labour Gov. come up with this plan there was what we have now: one of the slowest, most costly networks in the developed world – and what have you chosen to report on? Not the 90% of Australia who are happy, not the nation its self coming out of the dark ages – you report on the 10% of Australia who can’t get 100Mbps, but only 12Mbps – and you flavour this phrase with “if they are lucky”, what do you mean if they are lucky? The fact is they WILL get 12Mbps. If I lived in a small town I wouldn’t be mad at that, 12Mbps is still pretty good – better than I’d expect, and certainly alot better than Telstra’s monopoly is offering at the moment anywhere close to across the board.
I’ve been following this issue a LOT, and The Australian seems to be the only source I’ve read online where every article about the NBN is totally negative, bar one which started scalding the government’s decision – but only spoke positively in the final paragraph, even then it falls short of crediting the current government for this(Take a stand on broadband – BUSINESS April 24).
Even the tone of the current article sounds less like unbiased news and more like a call to action – “Broadband losers could vote Labour out” (kinda sounds like “You could eat the fruit and be like God, Eve“).
This article is so biased. So what is it The Australian / Newscorp? Is it your love for the Liberals or your partnership with Telstra that makes you this way inclined?
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