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The New Labor MOA program (Mobile Optic Access)

Incredulous that a fixed line NBN is being rolled out in an era of mobile computing? Fear not. The Labor government will no doubt soon announce breakthroughs like this:

In latest news, the roll out of the Government’s $30 billion MOA program (Mobile Optic Access) system has finished installing optic fiber outlets in Sydney [...]

WWF or the new ‘Wireless Warming Fear’

The Australian, 25 June 2011: [Wireless] Non-compete clause exposes flaws of NBN:

The promoters of the NBN keep saying that wireless just can’t compete with fixed fibre… That only fibre can give the sustained guaranteed speed; that wireless degrades quickly depending how far you move from the base station and how many are hooked [...]

Gillard’s NBN scorched earth policy

Saddam Hussein rushed to set Kuwait’s oil wells on fire in 1991 as a part of scorched earth policy as he retreated. The wells burned for 10 months and cost $1.5 Billion to extinguish.

Ms Gillard has rushed to lock in up to $30 billion of construction contracts on the NBN, [...]