Comments by "Andy Dee" (@AndyViant) on "American Reacts to Why Australia Stopped a Private Company From Providing a Better Internet Service" video.

  1. It's more complex than this. The solution was a proper fibre to the premises broadband - high speed, reliable, scalable and new. But that was proposed by the Labor party, who are usually opposed by our media (even moreso than our government), predominantly one Rupert Murdoch. You may have heard of him... has a lot of money and clout, as well as almost all of our media. The alternative proposal was that we somehow cobble together a hybrid of HFC cable, Satellite, Wifi, 4G, 5G, ADSL and ISDN, maintain all of these, maintain a fair and equitable playing field by slowing it all way down, and do it on the cheap. Who knows, maybe there was even some HSDPA still in there. Maybe some homing pigeons too. Of course most of that relied on using a copper telephone cable network that was in some cases over 100 years old. That the government once owned, but had long been sold off. Of course with the growth of mobile phones Telstra knew they were sitting on an expensive dead duck that only was good for the basis of the ADSL network but needed massive injections of capital. Could the government get cheap access from Telstra for it's old copper network? Not on your Nelly. So, the "cheap" solution ended up being basically extorted into buying the old, clapped out copper network for basically what a brand new fibre to the premises system with 100 times the speed would have cost. Hurrah for Superior Economic Management. And that's how "fraudband" was born... erm birthed... erm oozed from the primordial swamp.
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