nbn co a big fail so far, page-4

Doesn't this sum up this ALP government:

"Quigley largely blames the protracted negotiations with Telstra over the $11 billion deal, which delayed access to the Telstra ducts.

That explanation is a furphy. As Telstra recently told the joint parliamentary committee overseeing the NBN, it had an interim agreement to give NBN Co access.

But perhaps what is of real concern is the fact Quigley, an industry veteran of 30 years, much spent at the highest levels, badly misjudged the time it would take to negotiate the Telstra deal. It is also of some concern that he failed to understand that serving up to 90,000 new homes a year with fibre was way beyond the competency of a start-up company.

NBN Co and the government have thrown money at the new developments problem to little effect. In May last year, NBN Co announced a $100m deal and a month later Quigley told the estimates committee: "the contractual arrangements with our greenfields supplier Fujitsu is working well. For this fiscal year (2011-12) we expect to pass approximately 65,000 lots and connect approximately 40,000 premises." As noted, about 1000 were passed and 300 connected."


Here we go again surprise surprise. Could not organize a chook raffle as many of us have previously stated. Like posters in here that fail dismally to tear our logic apart we see excuses. I really loved this bit:

"So less than 20 months after predicting that 172,000 greenfield premises would be passed and 132,000 connected, 0.6 per cent of the coverage target and less than 0.2 per cent of the active service target have been met."

Interim agreement - gave them the go ahead to start, underestimated ability of a start up, changed the original policy, on and on this charade goes.

Yep that is the score for the ALP - 0.2% achievement - 2 out of 1000! A bit over generous for some ministers and especially for our PM. Get them out now Independents - have some pride and do something for Australia please.

I sort of makes the theoretical infrastructure posts about how this will launch jobs and our future look like more ALP spin.

CW