Tag Archives: auspol

The National Coffee Bean Network?

Hot on the heels of a fiery Senate Estimates hearing into the NBN the other night, in which the opposition attacked NBN Co on their usage of coffee machines – (yes, really) – came this follow up report into the matter. Stupid right? How many workplaces offer coffee to their employees? Every single one I’ve […]

Should An Official ABC Twitter Account Be Saying This?

What exactly is an official ABC Twitter account doing tweeting something like this? Now, whether or not the opinion expressed is valid – (and I’m making no particular judgement on the opinion expressed) – whoever is operating this account on behalf of the ABC, should be expressing this opinion on a personal account, not an […]

Google Fiber Lighting The Way For Our NBN

Even though I generally truly hate the term “superfast broadband” – (the corny piece of nomenclature insisted upon by our politicians, and which ranks up there with “cyber-this” and “cyber-that”) – the pending arrival of the National Broadband Network (NBN) and its “superfast” speeds in many areas of Australia will mean many things to many […]

Debunking The NBN Radiation Myth

There is often much-ado created when new communications towers – particularly for mobile internet and telephony – are proposed for erection, and the usual NIMBY-like behaviour starts. The two most common complaints are “it looks bad and ruins our views” and “the radiation will kill us”. The visual amenity of communications tower is a valid […]

Turnbull Must Now Accept NBN Has Not Completely Failed

Hey there Malcolm Turnbull – do you remember this interview on Sky News Australia from February 2012? You should, as it is on your own website. It makes interesting reading: “MALCOLM TURNBULL: But you know, the big challenge here — the extraordinary thing that we have seen today, is we know the NBN has passed […]

Fletcher Flubs Complaint Over 4G Auction Reserve Prices

With the impending cessation of analogue television signals in Australia, the government are preparing to auction the RF spectrum that will be freed up at that time. This spectrum is expected to predominantly be taken up for use in commercial cellular mobile networks for data and voice services. Late last year, the reserve price was […]

2012: Posts Of The Year

In this the 2012 edition of my ‘posts of the year’, we have a decidedly NBN flavour, with the statistically most popular article on my site in nine of the twelve months being NBN related. Yes I do write about the NBN quite a bit, but that these articles are so popular on my site […]

Andrew Laming With Another Online Hatchet Job

Regular readers may remember the laughable effort displayed towards me by Andrew Laming when dealing with criticism of his position of the National Broadband Network (NBN) back in April this year. Andrew ended up blocking me on Twitter – (which he is perfectly entitled to do) – and I thought nothing of it until I […]

Another Misleading NBN Headline

Well, the Australian mainstream media are at it again, using misleading headlines to try and trumpet misfortune upon the rollout of the National Broadband Network (NBN). Here’s the latest effort: NBN Contractor To Lay Off 160 Workers And this is how it looked on the front of The Age website: The blurb says: “NBN contractor […]

Turnbull’s Low Definition Broadband Crystal Ball

Malcolm Turnbull is at it again, criticising just about anything published by anyone that is in any way supportive of the National Broadband Network (NBN). This is despite ample evidence provided by anyone who challenges his alternative plan, and people actually building the NBN that he is completely missing the point. His plan calls for […]