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Earlier today, NBN Co appointed one of the most senior executives of media organisation News Corp Australia to be its new chief financial officer. Stephen Rue will commence work from the 1st of July.
Rupert Murdoch & News Corp have often been accused of having influenced the Liberal Government’s decision to scrap the previous Fibre-to-the-Premises NBN design and replace it with an inferior design based on acquiring and reusing old copper phone lines owned by Telstra, as well as the existing Hybrid Fibre-Coaxial networks owned by Telstra and Optus.
News Corp and Telstra are joint owners of Foxtel, which uses the Telstra HFC network to provide Cable TV to Australian subscribers who live in cabled areas.
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Last Wednesday 9th April, Malcolm Turnbull, Communications Minister and Liberal Member for the Federal seat of Wentworth, ordered NBN Co to cease their deployment of a National Broadband Network based primarily on a Fibre-to-the-Premises architecture and instead switch to their preferred “Optimised Multi-technology Mix” architecture.
Under this plan, only a minority of premises will be connected by Fibre and the rest of the country will have to use existing copper telephone cable infrastructure, HFC Pay TV networks, 4G cellular networks and satellite internet depending on what is available at a customer’s location.
See Delimiter:
Along with the vast majority of the Australian IT industry, we consider Malcolm Turnbull’s 44.1 Billion dollar plan to be highly wasteful, inferior and woefully inadequate to meet Australia’s current and future needs.
We see this decision not being made as the result of an objective assessment performed by qualified telecommunications experts, but rather to spite the previous ALP government who launched the NBN. That is, rejecting policies simply because they came from their opposition. The Liberal party may have had valid grounds to change the management of NBN Co and its tender processes, but certainly not the technology choices.
Last Friday 11th April, Canberra Times cartoonist David Pope published a brilliant cartoon about Turnbull’s decision:
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