NBN: Debunking Turnbull with Alan Jones - V

Commenting on: Turnbull to Alan Jones, 15-Jul-2013

But the point is when you are making decisions
 in times of uncertainty
 as you are particularly with technology,
 you have to preserve as much flexibility and options – and hence,
‘optionality’
 – and that’s what business people do.

Reframes 3 things:

• we are in UNCERTAIN times. correct response is to be cautious and batten down the hatches.

• Technology is in rapid flux, demand is uncertain, great to potential to misstep and waste money, implies 'in huge amounts'.

• Turnbull  'knows business' and is speaking 'as a business person'. sane, rational, logical, Just dollars & cents.

1. Only Real Consumer Choice is offered by Fibre:

• guaranteed speeds, not by lottery
• Demand can be met with Supply
• Opposite of "one size fits all", choice of access rate to meet needs and needs.
• Tiered pricing with Fibre is both equitable AND profitable.
• Pay for what you want: Trade time for Dollars, your choice.
• High-end see decreasing per-Mbps as a bargaining. Entry-level get a CHEAP service.

2. Fibre is Robin Hood Economics: Top 25% high-demand users subside the other 75%. Rich help Poor.

• On-going profits, generated solely by high-end consumers, pays for everyone to get lower costs

3. The Telecommunications business has Real Choice and new offerings with Fibre, not VDSL.

• They open up the options, flexibility to offer MANY brand new services
• and they can choose, on a per-line basis, to upgrade transceivers from 10Mbps to 1,000,000Mbps
• or connect people locally or offer business services, like redundant links and symmetrical speeds,
• or allow people to truly work from home, with full HD-videoconf, and secure networks,
• or allow people to run servers from home, for new businesses or just backing up data.

4. Turnbull either is an informed, experienced, competent business person spinning tales and deliberately pulling the wool over people's eyes OR he is a complete sham: uninformed, incompetent and inexperienced.

Turnbull hasn't released a Business Plan, or the 30 years of financial forecasts he prepared. Only a 'policy' which a disguised & hidden $10-$20 billion Blackhole, a guaranteed Financial Disaster, resulting in the largest single the Government will ever face: writing off the entire $30 billion investment.