Telstra are already using this MINIMUX technology. In many new housing estates they have installed RIM units (on the cheap) where there wasn't enough copper back to the exchange.
When the residents discovered they couldn't get ADSL in the brand new mega expensive developments, Telstra backflipped and took two years to addressed the issue with the so called MINIMUX (Mini DSLAM). They're still rolling them out as we speak.
Having said that, even if your on a RIM voice service, you can't get access to other providers, only Telstra (wholesale). So you're still at the mercy of Telstra's premium pricing.
Where do you think this split idea was born. You've already lived the wet dream, except you found the sexy girl at the bar was really a man.
We Australian's are so blind. We witnessed the creation of the baby bells only to repeat the same mistakes.
If you read the detail, you will find the seperation is only internal. It's not a full division of assets, products and revenue streams. Tel$tra are still one company, only the internal secret dealing between Bigpond and Telstra wholesale will now be public.
Unfortunately nothing will stop them from running the retail arm at a loss and have the wholesale arm recouple these loses from third party wholesale customers.
This is terrible news. Once again the media has been distracted by the issues of services in the bush, when the real issue is quietly forgotten about.
The reality is we're being scammed.
What isn't made clear to the masses, is we have a semi private entity set to get approximately 3 billion dollars of public funds, to expand a soon to be privatised network.
Yes the funds are available to other companies, but if the HiBiS scheme is anything to go by, Tel$tra will get a big slice of it.
We paid for the infrastructure once (with taxes) and now we're expected to pay for it again, while shovelling another 3 billion in to sweeten the deal.
The fact that it's being separated is irrelevant. The opportunity to keep the infrastructure in public hands is a great loss to the people.
The worst part is that the Australian government has the majority share of Tel$tra, but can't even control it. Line rental is going through the roof and Telstra's anti-competitive behaviour against smaller broadband players is killing off the only alternatives we have. That's that state now... What hope do we have once it's fully private.
And what is to happen to all the proceeds from the full sale of Tel$tra? Nothing has been said! Will history repeat itself and deliver the public timely election sweetener deals.
Once again the Australian Government screws the public in favour of big business. Yet it will be all forgotten come election time. Perhaps another "baby overboard" scare or some timely terrorist/security threats will distract the public again. Thanks for nothing Johnny.
The bubble is already bursting. The latest Sydney trends are showing a fall in prices and it's likely to trickle through to the others cities, just like the rise did.
You'll hear plenty of agents telling you otherwise. My favourite agent comment, "prices never fall drastically... holding out won't save you much". Yet "never before in history has housing costs gone up so sharply". Anything is possible.
The market is slowing rapidly. Just look for the signs.... In the average mailbox... how many of those Agent free home evals do you get each week? The work is drying up for them...
What a great argument! If I had mod points this post would get them for sure.
It's not often you come across a great/. post like this, that puts it so simply.
My Hat's off to you sir/madam.
And in the spirit of it. I'm going to take a copy and shove it in the face of the next a$$ that tries to defend any money/reward for nothing princple! I just wish I could attribute it to some one. Sorry AC.
Honestly, the chance of being in one of these major terrorism attacks or natural disasters is very slim....Even compared to shark attacks or lotto wins.
Are people going to trade a heap of privacy, for such a tiny gain?
Life Insurance Company:Well sir we'd like you to have one of these in your arm, just in case you fall into that 1 in a billion group... You just never know.:)
How embarrassing... What hope do we have, when the MPAA/RIAA pushes these schemes that are so easily defeated by overlaying simple encryption. When you see the effort, time and dollars being spent on such frivolous plans, it really hits home how out of touch these organisations are.
I liken their plight to the alchemists trying to turn lead into gold. The only sure thing is, their being taken for a ride by law/anti p2p firms and companies like Philips Technology cashing in on their ignorance.
Sadly I don't expect them to see the light anytime soon.
Well the Japs are on the virge of mapping the moon in high detail. I think it takes place early/mid year and it will pretty conclusive whether the US went there or not.
For the sake of further space programs I do hope there's evidence. If not then it will be the end of NASA IMHO and a sad day for the US.
A brave move, but a welcomed one at that. It's going to be interesting next 12 months to see if Novell has made the right move.
Netware is a solid platform and proven its stability, where Windows has failed. On the other hand Novells 1st generation software hasn't always been the best.
Will the Netware zealots adopt the linux based services quick enough for Novell to cover its investment? Lets hope....Time will tell.
Often it helps to know the exact reason before blowing up and making a stink over it. It also means you can approach them for a exemption and know what not to say when trying to justify it.
Unfortunatley this will never happen. The cats out of the bag. Once little Johnny sold half of Telstra the game was over. There's no way in hell the they be able to rip the infrustructure from the private interests, who own the other half.
The best avenue ATM is to split the accounting practices into wholesale and retail, eliminating any backdoor payments, enabling the retail arm to sell products at below cost, to kill off competition.
To try and understand why broadband access within Australia has only 2% take up, look at
The sad fact is most of the cost in these plans is in the Telstra wholesale charges. Often accounting for 80% cost of the product, which mid you, doesn't include data. So the ISP has absolutely no room to move!
Almost all of all the ADSL providers in Australia resell Telstra ADSL. There's no competition at the whoelsale level at all.
Until we see some real competition in the broadband whole market, the prices will remain the same.
A senate committee hearing is currently underway in Australia, which is invistgating Telstraâ(TM)s practices. Especially Broadband and the dominance over the local loop. (Last mile of copper from the exchange)
Just take a look at the transcription below to get a feel for the attitude this company has!
Comments like this from Telstra really make you laugh. (pg. 337)
There is an ADSL fetish that ADSL equals broadband. We do not believe that. We sell broadband services, and so we will try ISDN for those customers. That may be all they need, particularly if they are downloading stuff from the US, because ISDN is the maximum speed you will need to get stuff from the US.
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Telstra are already using this MINIMUX technology. In many new housing estates they have installed RIM units (on the cheap) where there wasn't enough copper back to the exchange.
When the residents discovered they couldn't get ADSL in the brand new mega expensive developments, Telstra backflipped and took two years to addressed the issue with the so called MINIMUX (Mini DSLAM). They're still rolling them out as we speak.
Having said that, even if your on a RIM voice service, you can't get access to other providers, only Telstra (wholesale). So you're still at the mercy of Telstra's premium pricing.
A few facts
Oz Broadband is anything over 128kbs.(ISDN) Laughable yes.
The maximum speed Tel$tra offer (over ADSL) is 1500/256kbs. *
Up till this announcement, if you were over ~3.5km from the exchange, then you probably couldn't get ADSL.
Telstra (Bigpond) charge for data usage in both directions and their largest offering is 10GB, with modem speed shaping there after.
Telstra also force voice bundling. If you want ADSL, you must have voice and pay a minimum of $18.50AUD per month, even if you don't need it.*
This new offering is best described as a mini DSLAM with a ~2.3Mbit backhaul. So even two users could potentially max it out.
While it's good news for some that are out of reach. The overall state of Oz broadband isn't worth writing home about.
* Some providers offer connection without a voice service (ULL) and ADSL2+ (24Mbs) but only in 5% of exchanges.
Where do you think this split idea was born. You've already lived the wet dream, except you found the sexy girl at the bar was really a man.
We Australian's are so blind. We witnessed the creation of the baby bells only to repeat the same mistakes.
If you read the detail, you will find the seperation is only internal. It's not a full division of assets, products and revenue streams. Tel$tra are still one company, only the internal secret dealing between Bigpond and Telstra wholesale will now be public.
Unfortunately nothing will stop them from running the retail arm at a loss and have the wholesale arm recouple these loses from third party wholesale customers.
This is terrible news. Once again the media has been distracted by the issues of services in the bush, when the real issue is quietly forgotten about.
The reality is we're being scammed.
What isn't made clear to the masses, is we have a semi private entity set to get approximately 3 billion dollars of public funds, to expand a soon to be privatised network.
Yes the funds are available to other companies, but if the HiBiS scheme is anything to go by, Tel$tra will get a big slice of it.
We paid for the infrastructure once (with taxes) and now we're expected to pay for it again, while shovelling another 3 billion in to sweeten the deal.
The fact that it's being separated is irrelevant. The opportunity to keep the infrastructure in public hands is a great loss to the people.
The worst part is that the Australian government has the majority share of Tel$tra, but can't even control it. Line rental is going through the roof and Telstra's anti-competitive behaviour against smaller broadband players is killing off the only alternatives we have. That's that state now... What hope do we have once it's fully private.
And what is to happen to all the proceeds from the full sale of Tel$tra? Nothing has been said! Will history repeat itself and deliver the public timely election sweetener deals.
Once again the Australian Government screws the public in favour of big business. Yet it will be all forgotten come election time. Perhaps another "baby overboard" scare or some timely terrorist/security threats will distract the public again. Thanks for nothing Johnny.
The bubble is already bursting. The latest Sydney trends are showing a fall in prices and it's likely to trickle through to the others cities, just like the rise did.
You'll hear plenty of agents telling you otherwise. My favourite agent comment, "prices never fall drastically... holding out won't save you much". Yet "never before in history has housing costs gone up so sharply". Anything is possible.
The market is slowing rapidly. Just look for the signs.... In the average mailbox... how many of those Agent free home evals do you get each week? The work is drying up for them...
Sit tight!
Yes rent is expensive there. But the wages are far highier. It's a scale of economy thing.
Then if you want to compare the tax system differences, it's really trying to compare oranges with apples.
What a great argument! If I had mod points this post would get them for sure.
/. post like this, that puts it so simply.
It's not often you come across a great
My Hat's off to you sir/madam.
And in the spirit of it. I'm going to take a copy and shove it in the face of the next a$$ that tries to defend any money/reward for nothing princple! I just wish I could attribute it to some one. Sorry AC.
Murder implies deliberate. The above is pure rubbish.
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Even drunk drivers speeding and killing people only get found guilty of man slaughter at the most.
Have a read of this case.
http://www.bikeforums.net/archive/index.php/t-102
What a great idea.
1. Find RFID of target.
2. Plant bomb with RFID senser.
3. Wait for target to target past.
4. Boooooooom.
Talk about arming terrorist with the tools they need.
Honestly, the chance of being in one of these major terrorism attacks or natural disasters is very slim....Even compared to shark attacks or lotto wins.
:)
Are people going to trade a heap of privacy, for such a tiny gain?
Life Insurance Company: Well sir we'd like you to have one of these in your arm, just in case you fall into that 1 in a billion group... You just never know.
How embarrassing... What hope do we have, when the MPAA/RIAA pushes these schemes that are so easily defeated by overlaying simple encryption. When you see the effort, time and dollars being spent on such frivolous plans, it really hits home how out of touch these organisations are.
I liken their plight to the alchemists trying to turn lead into gold. The only sure thing is, their being taken for a ride by law/anti p2p firms and companies like Philips Technology cashing in on their ignorance.
Sadly I don't expect them to see the light anytime soon.
Please mod the parent up. Excellent video showing scale of the waves force.
Does anyone have links to videos of the event?
Tried Reuters, but there's not much to see.
What's the white part pictured?
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http://www.ericharshbarger.org/lego/images/clock/
I'm no Lego head, but I haven't seen that part one before. Is it Lego? Look's like a pully?
Rob
Jeez... When you're talking about new world records you think you'd stop to double check those IMPORTANT facts which appear in the first paragraph. :)
But then again this is slashdot.
Well the Japs are on the virge of mapping the moon in high detail. I think it takes place early/mid year and it will pretty conclusive whether the US went there or not.
For the sake of further space programs I do hope there's evidence. If not then it will be the end of NASA IMHO and a sad day for the US.
I almost sympathised with you there for a minute until I realised you connected with Telstra.
Tel$tra are notorious for on selling equipment at highly inflated costs. This has nothing todo with the 3Com's oem price.
Innovation? NDS, Zenworks, Border manager... Where was AD, SMS and ISA then?
Sheeezzeees, AD doesn't even have role based objects yet suitable for application deployment.
Agreed there's not a lot of room for innovation that can happen in the File and Print arena, but that doesn't mean Novell doesn't innovate at all.
A brave move, but a welcomed one at that. It's going to be interesting next 12 months to see if Novell has made the right move.
Netware is a solid platform and proven its stability, where Windows has failed. On the other hand Novells 1st generation software hasn't always been the best.
Will the Netware zealots adopt the linux based services quick enough for Novell to cover its investment? Lets hope....Time will tell.
Have they detailed why?
Often it helps to know the exact reason before blowing up and making a stink over it. It also means you can approach them for a exemption and know what not to say when trying to justify it.
Unfortunatley this will never happen. The cats out of the bag. Once little Johnny sold half of Telstra the game was over. There's no way in hell the they be able to rip the infrustructure from the private interests, who own the other half.
The best avenue ATM is to split the accounting practices into wholesale and retail, eliminating any backdoor payments, enabling the retail arm to sell products at below cost, to kill off competition.
Sorry here's the link to the ADSL prices in Australia
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http://www.broadbandchoice.com.au/plan.cfm?loc=
To try and understand why broadband access within Australia has only 2% take up, look at The sad fact is most of the cost in these plans is in the Telstra wholesale charges. Often accounting for 80% cost of the product, which mid you, doesn't include data. So the ISP has absolutely no room to move! Almost all of all the ADSL providers in Australia resell Telstra ADSL. There's no competition at the whoelsale level at all. Until we see some real competition in the broadband whole market, the prices will remain the same.
A senate committee hearing is currently underway in Australia, which is invistgating Telstraâ(TM)s practices. Especially Broadband and the dominance over the local loop. (Last mile of copper from the exchange)
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Just take a look at the transcription below to get a feel for the attitude this company has!
http://www.aph.gov.au/hansard/senate/commttee/s
Comments like this from Telstra really make you laugh. (pg. 337)
There is an ADSL fetish that ADSL equals broadband. We do not believe that. We sell broadband services, and so we will try ISDN for those customers. That may be all they need, particularly if they are downloading stuff from the US, because ISDN is the maximum speed you will need to get stuff from the US.
Sad But true.
So where did these rocks come from "really"?
:)
I read some where, the japs are well on their way to mapping the moon in about two years, so no doubt the truth will be revealed then.
So what happens to these theifs then?