Comments on: Telstra is being successful… quick, let’s put a stop to it! http://jamisonprawn.net/2009/09/telstra-is-being-successful-quick-lets-put-a-stop-to-it/ And may these words on my heart, on my lips, somehow mean so much more than this. Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:37:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Rob http://jamisonprawn.net/2009/09/telstra-is-being-successful-quick-lets-put-a-stop-to-it/comment-page-1/#comment-1170 Rob Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:43:49 +0000 http://jamisonprawn.net/?p=2999#comment-1170 Most of the countries in the Caribbean have govnm. owned networks and the service is really really bad. Here in Trinidad it's taken me 3 weeks just to get all 5 lines working, and the DSL is forever dropping out.... TSTT (Trinidad telecommunications) used to be owned by the government but is now privatized in an attempt to bring in competition and get them to raise their service levels. I just hope that in whatever happens here, we don't go backwards with service due to lack of competition. Telstra has come a long way since they have had competition and I would hate for that edge to be lost. My only other comment is to ask why we arn't using the existing cable networks and just bumping them up to DOCSIS 2.0 or higher which will give almost the same speeds as this new fiber network. That's what the USA is doing. I don't understand how anyone can propose that fiber to the home is cost effective at those speeds. Then there is the question of the backbone from Australia to the rest of the world. It's already seriously under spec'd and if we all get faster broadband it's only going to be slower again. Most of the countries in the Caribbean have govnm. owned networks and the service is really really bad. Here in Trinidad it’s taken me 3 weeks just to get all 5 lines working, and the DSL is forever dropping out…. TSTT (Trinidad telecommunications) used to be owned by the government but is now privatized in an attempt to bring in competition and get them to raise their service levels.

I just hope that in whatever happens here, we don’t go backwards with service due to lack of competition. Telstra has come a long way since they have had competition and I would hate for that edge to be lost.

My only other comment is to ask why we arn’t using the existing cable networks and just bumping them up to DOCSIS 2.0 or higher which will give almost the same speeds as this new fiber network. That’s what the USA is doing. I don’t understand how anyone can propose that fiber to the home is cost effective at those speeds.

Then there is the question of the backbone from Australia to the rest of the world. It’s already seriously under spec’d and if we all get faster broadband it’s only going to be slower again.

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