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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?
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.
Network neutrality = free love?
Posted by Laurei in Australian Issues, Break up of telstra, FOC news commentary, Network Neutrality on June 29th, 2009
Remember who he works for, his name, and one thing about him:
Telstra Bigpond’s Justin Milne is a TWAT! I am sorry there is no other way to say it.
Why the strong words? Because Justin Milne has taken a leaf out of Sol Trujillo’s book and created the most rubbish Op Ed about Network Neutrality I have ever read. This monkey headed galoot is trying the whole FUD (Fear, uncertainty, doubt) trip that Sol thought he was so clever at by likening net neutrality to free love. Yes free love. This would have to be the most woeful analogy I have heard in a long time, and clearly he thinks people are going to buy it. Maybe they will, which is scary; Well, here are the facts:
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