Murdoch orders Rudd to implement fibre optic to the HOME! - National Mass Media

Murdoch orders Rudd to implement fibre optic to the HOME!
by gan Wednesday, Apr 8 2009, 11:42am
national / mass media / commentary

In an interview on Lateline Business last night, the Oz CEO of AAPT, Paul Broad, clearly demonstrated with plain maths the economic lunacy of the scheme; the best case scenario would incur a $200/month fee for the new fibre optic service when costs today average about $35/month for broadband usage! Why this outrageous and unviable undertaking from a PM who has never had an original idea in his pathetic, bureaucratic, life?

In a word, PANIC!

The effects the internet is having on mainstream propaganda (news) the print media, TV, entertainment, movies etc, cannot be overestimated. Newspapers are going the way of the Thylacine, TV audiences are 'tubing' online, cinemas are reeling from P2P movie and music piracy BUT most FEARED by the magnates is the POPULAR DISCOURSE running at 180 degrees to that formulated by the powers.

What we have today is an explosive expansion of the people’s VOICE via the UNCENSORED medium of the internet. And not surprisingly, the popular discourse is running counter to the prescribed, mainstream discourse -- and that is a major problem for the ‘powers.’

It is amusing at times observing two diametrically opposed discourses vying for dominance. Nevertheless, the media magnates have no illusions, the independents are WINNING, hands down – the solution, introduce censorship through the guise of ‘protecting society’ from child porn, which in Oz also translates as “unwanted content” and “P2P” technologies – Rupert is not happy and he is no fool; his media empire is taking on the appearance of Swiss Cheese!

The first order went out, control the flow of information and slowly but surely eliminate the dissenting voice and other technologies threatening profits and power – the Obama sell failed before he was inaugurated as president, such is the ubiquity and power of the independents!

However, it was soon discovered that internet censorship could not be implemented due to resistance from major broadband providers and the existence of a less than adequate communications infra-structure. Gaining control of the medium became imperative; implementing CENSORSHIP and providing acceptable performance would thereby be possible. So the order from on high, ‘FIX IT’ (and fuck the cost, the people are paying!)

It remains to be seen which political party will take the incompetent, dunces prize – it is currently held by the conservatives; former communications minister, Richard Alston paid $6 million for a $150K web package. But Rudd’s (Murdoch’s) project would make Alston look thrifty.

[This piece is but one of millions of unified voices protecting free speech, liberty, democracy and justice – IN OTHER WORDS, RUPERT, YOU AND YOUR KIND ARE GOING DOWN!

Keep one eye focused on the little fleas, Rudd and Conroy, doing the bidding of media and financial elites and remember, 'one term government!'

We favour independents (real representation) in government and on the net – where did YOU think it was going, Rupert?]

Excerpt:

"ALI MOORE: Why do you think the numbers for the Government's national broadband network don't stack up?

PAUL BROAD: Well if you project yourself 10 years ahead, you have a $43 billion investment. On any sort of reasonable return, say of 10 per cent, you've got to generate $4.3 billion just to make a return on the investment. And you add up all the bits to run a wholesale and retail business, you'll see that the average punter will be paying something like $200 a month for this service. And when you think today they get not 100 megabits, but they get probably 50, 45, for about - well, for less than half that. I mean, I just don't think that people'll are going to pay double for something they don't need. And I always get reminded of the Cross City Tunnel. You know, wonderful piece of infrastructure, but no one wants to use it for the price.

ALI MOORE: You say double, but isn't it really too early to work out exactly what the price structures are going to be? Because the range in the market now is anything from 55 up. Can you really say what it's going to take to make the network viable?

PAUL BROAD: Well the simple maths are, you work it out, you say $43 billion, 10 per cent, that's 4.3. Run a wholesale and retail business, you're probably after another $4 billion. So that's $8 billion a year you got to generate from 8 million customers. That's if everybody else turned off Telstra, asked Optus and went to this system. You did that in the most optimistic case - the most optimistic case; it's hard for the maths to come out anything less than $200 a month."

See link for entire Transcript:

If by "FIX IT" you mean to gain control of the medium, fibre optic, then you would be right. Be careful with your emphasis on speed, as every hacker and IT savvy person knows, higher speeds, which fibre optics deliver, increases 'drag' on performance if 'CONTENT' filtering technologies are installed. The higher the speed (data throughput) the more stress on the filter/bandwidth, SEE?

However, it appears that our obedient politicians have been directed to RE-GAIN CONTROL of the data delivery system or infra-structure -- got it?

They had it before they sold Telecom to the private sector! A government Telco could have simply issued a directive to implement fibre-optic to the node/home and away it goes at minimal cost; plus they would have been able, without outside interference or dependence, to exclude any site they chose from THEIR network, simple!

The current 'Rudd' (Murdoch) plan is simply to re-gain ownership of the 'wire' in order to avoid being held to ransom by the major Telcos, as just occurred with Conroy the lamer -- in other words, the issue is CONTROL, NOT SPEED!

What is meant is any implementation or policy that serves the interests of Murdoch/BIG business/minority elites and disadvantages the people by subverting free speech, limiting freedom of choice, and attacking DEMOCRATIC rights.

But thank you for clarifying issues relating to speed and filtering technologies -- of course CENSORSHIP is a crude form of CONTROL!

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