So it wouldn't, but if it does ...

As a result of the pond's most recent foray into Malware la la land, a kindly reader sent a link to a delimiter story which began this way:

NBN chief executive Bill Morrow this morning broadly confirmed analysis by his predecessor Mike Quigley showing that the up to $15 billion blowout in the NBN company’s costs was due to the Multi-Technology Mix imposed by Malcolm Turnbull, in a move that appears set to increase the pressure on the Government over the issue.  
In August this year, the NBN company revealed the project’s funding requirement had blown out by between $5 billion and $15 billion compared with the Strategic Review conducted by NBN Co executives in late 2013 after Malcolm Turnbull became Communications Minister. 
In August, Turnbull stated that the new cost estimates — including the multi-billion-dollar funding blowout — were based on the fact that the NBN company now knew more about deploying high-speed broadband than “anyone else” in Australia. “All of that information and experience,” the Minister said, had led to its revised funding estimates. 
Turnbull accused the previous management of the company — led by chief executive Mike Quigley — as being incompetent when it came to its financial modelling. 
However, in an interview with the ABC’s Background Briefing program last week, Quigley stated that the cost blowout was in fact due to the Multi-Technology Mix imposed on the NBN by Turnbull. This model reuses the ageing copper and HFC cable networks owned by Telstra and Optus and is technically inferior to the original near universal Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) model instituted by Labor.

Now there's a lot more to the story and a lot more by way of links, here, but here's the nub of it:

Speaking at the NBN company’s quarterly financial results briefing this morning, Morrow stated that the increase in the NBN company’s peak funding costs was explained at the August press conference detailing the NBN company’s latest financial results and corporate plan. 
“We talked about the $8 billion cost that caused that … it mostly related to the two new technologies that we’re using,” he said, referring to the HFC cable and Fibre to the Node rollouts highlighted by Quigley. 
Morrow said from the NBN company’s point of view, the cost increase was “perfectly understandable”.

Indeed, indeed, and it put the pond in the mood for a snow job by a goose, an epic bout of blather hidden behind the Murdochian paywall yesterday ...

Take it away, snow goose ...

And with such a promising header, why not start with an unacknowledged rip of L. P. Hartley ...

Ah, the carefully constructed infinite capacity for saying nothing but platitudes ...

Can we keep it going?

Uh huh. So it's not just back to the past of Queen Victoria's copper, it's back to the past and the Hawke Keating era and the remarkable stupidity of having two sets of HFC cables dangling on the poles in capital city streets ...

But do go on, the pond can never get enough of useless blather ...

Indeed, indeed, and it helps if there's a good mix of glibness mixed with the blather, but sadly the pond happened to note the alleged misunderstanding of the design, and the profound irony of the solution proposed for something alleged not to be a problem:

... when the demand dictates, we can extend this fibre further down the street ...

Uh huh ...

So it doesn't have an impact, but if it does ...

That's consummate, A grade horseshit to Tamworth's premium standard.

Um Bill, the pond's HFC link gets clogged right now when the pirates in the street hit their torrents or do whatever else they do, and at that point the pond's ability to upload (legitimate) data goes to hell in a hand basket ...

And Bill you do realise that everything you said made the pond dread the arrival of the NBN in its street ... because if that's the best you can do peddling a second rate half-arsed bunch of useless solutions, then things are even more fucked than the pond realised ...

Now it's no doubt a good thing that the NBN is testing HFC at Redcliffe here, but you do realise Bill, that Optus long ago worked out how to increase the speeds on its network, until they discovered they could flog it to a prize bunny and let them spend the money ...

Socialise the losses Bill and privatise the profits ...

And so to a few twitter items, because the twitterati irritates the commentariat so, and yes, the pond has a lefty in the immediate family ...

Memo to self: never Twitter ...