skua, 8 months ago

#Australia #Broadband for the 20th century.

#NBN

#ThanksMal #LiberalsAU #DuttonsMates

#AusPol Infrastucture on the cheap.

Broadband is down. This is coming up to 22 hours of trash/fail service.

DropBear, 8 months ago

@skua
Telecommunications is essential national infrastructure.
Alienating if from the Public Good might not technically be treason, but it betrayed the nation. Time to de-privatise what should never have been privatised.

This hasn't been kept up-to-date, but it gives a good history:
https://david.boxall.id.au/201604/default.html
#AusPol #NBN #telecommunications #PublicGood #Privatisation

Bot4Sale, 8 months ago

@DropBear @skua It pisses me off that companies who paid nothing towards the development of the NBN can charge us taxpayers a premium to access it, or even kick us off the network entirely when it was our tax dollars that funded the overpriced catastrophe.

DropBear, 8 months ago

@Bot4Sale
The nation would probably be better off if access was free of charge. Fund the network from General Revenue.
https://david.boxall.id.au/201604/default.html#PricingModel
@skua
#AusPol #NBN #telecommunications #PublicGood #Privatisation

Jakra, 8 months ago

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DropBear, 8 months ago

@Jakra
I reckon the economy would benefit as well. But the rich & selfish might pay more (they also might not - the calculations are complicated).
@Bot4Sale @skua
#AusPol #NBN #telecommunications #PublicGood #Privatisation

Bot4Sale, 8 months ago

@Jakra @DropBear @skua Anything that's been privatised over the past ~50 years would fall into the same bucket I think