{"id":147,"date":"2008-12-16T12:49:46","date_gmt":"2008-12-16T02:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=147"},"modified":"2008-12-16T12:49:46","modified_gmt":"2008-12-16T02:49:46","slug":"sorry-telstra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2008\/12\/sorry-telstra\/","title":{"rendered":"Sorry Telstra!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telstra are already whinging after being excluded from the National Broadband Network (NBN) tender process, after submitting a non-compliant bid.<\/p>\n<p>What did they expect?<\/p>\n<p><center>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"80%\" cellpadding\t=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n  <tr>\n    <td class=\"linkbox\"><a class=\"linkboxtext\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.australianit.news.com.au\/story\/0,24897,24807150-5013041,00.html\">Telstra Loses $6bn in NBN Hit<\/td>\n  <\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/center>\n<\/p>\n<p>The bottom line is, even if their bid was compliant, their projected cost of $39.95 per user, per month, for 12Mb speeds, with only 200MB of total download allowance is\/was a complete joke.<\/p>\n<p>In my opinion, Telstra don&#8217;t really care about the NBN &#8211; they are just trying to protect their 100% monopoly on the local copper loop &#8220;last mile&#8221; into everyone&#8217;s home or business.<\/p>\n<p>Other bidders are talking about fibre into the home &#8211; completely bypassing the need for Telstra&#8217;s copper network for connected users.<\/p>\n<p>So Telstra are panicking.  Awww.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telstra are already whinging after being excluded from the National Broadband Network (NBN) tender process, after submitting a non-compliant bid. What did they expect? Telstra Loses $6bn in NBN Hit The bottom line is, even if their bid was compliant, their projected cost of $39.95 per user, per month, for 12Mb speeds, with only 200MB [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[368],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-nbn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}