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Alston and Telstra both helping keep Australia down today

Posted on 22 Jan 2002 in General

Aside from my intense hatred for Telstra, especially after today when new increased pricing plans for ADSL have been leaked on Whirlpool. I reserve a very special hatred for Richard Alston. I could write for hours about how this person has against all the best advice from actual experts in their respective fields, fucked up the national broadband rollout, cable television, digital television, and many other factors related to communications infrastructure in this country. Bowing to the pressure of the media companies, Telstra and through plain stupidity. Full marks for getting so much for the 3G spectrum auctions though.. hah!

Don’t get me started on what an incredible waste of money and resources it was to lay TWO coaxial cables around major cities and metropolitan areas when they had the opportunity to lay shared fibre, eliminating the current cable duopoloy for broadband internet and television services.

What gets me the most about Alston though is his aggressive stance on Internet censorship. It turns out the ABA is not actually releasing the list of banned web sites, as it’s censored! I can’t believe they’re actually working actively on Internet censorship, getting ready to issue the blocked sites to Australian ISP’s.

This is why I didn’t vote liberal in the last election, they are a bunch of bottom feeding scum (oh wait perhaps that applies to all of them). Anyway a vote for liberal, was definitely a vote for Internet censorship. Sorry to get so political, but Alston really fucks me off.

CORRECTION: Labor was in power at the time of the coaxial decision, although both sides were heavily lobbied to go with photonics, neither was convinced and instead supported the two cable coaxial decision. When the Libs won power, Alston happily continued the twin co-axial rollout. It’s amazing to think what an extraordinary lost opportunity this was in terms of communications infrastructure. Instead of pissing around with ADSL and capped broadband, we could have had terrabit bandwidth to every home in Australia. [Thanks DV and DG]

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