Broadband: our future in a ditch
The recent Background Briefing program on broadband started with this image: Di Martin: But as Phil Dobbie discovered for himself the other day, the poor old copper wires, laid more than a century ago, are on their last legs. Phil [...]
The view from Channel Nine Seven
Continuing an irregular series commenting on how the election looks to commercial tv viewers: commercial free to air is the biggest single source of information for voters. I’m boycotting Channel Nine tonight, because I fear that the Mark Latham “controversy”/60 [...]
The view from Channel Nine XII
Continuing an irregular series commenting on how the election looks to commercial tv viewers: commercial free to air is the biggest single source of information for voters. There mustn’t be any Oakes/Latho self-referential “news” tonight, because wild weather and record [...]
Quick links: Broadband policy posts
There are two very useful posts on the Coalition’s broadband policy [earlier LP discussion here] published today worth highlighting: Tama Leaver on industry reaction and “the folly and farce” of the Coalition’s stance, and Stilgherrian in Crikey on the policy [...]
Broadband policy
Today the Coalition has announced its broadband policy. So far I can’t find anything on the Liberal Party’s ‘Real action’ site. I heard on NewsRadio that Conroy and Tony Smith are going to debate the issue at the National press [...]
The structural separation we've always wanted?
The government’s announced that it’s given up on the original form of its national broadband network scheme, and is now proposing “a new public/private company to build a national network”. They’ve also taken a significant step up in the proposed [...]
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