The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
No, in Sydney, currently the biggest economic basket case in
Australia's recessed economy, only an inefficient government owned
transport organisation that loses money has the right to use its
timetable data to develop the sort of applications that developer Nick
Maher did.
Except RailCorp hasn't developed such an application - it's not a software development company is it?
Heaven forbid that an independent developer should screen scrape time
table data off RailCorp's website and repackage it for a $2.49 iPhone
application. Apparently the timetable information is out-of-date and
could potentially confuse customers says RailCorp. So whose fault is
that?
Now of course RailCorp can choose to license a preferred supplier to
develop its own system. It will cost taxpayers' money in these hard
times but perhaps it should do so anyway.
Then again, without spending a cent it could actually encourage local
developers to like Mr Maher to build innovative transport information
systems, share data and even come to a revenue sharing arrangement.
But of course we're talking about a state government organisation here. All of the above makes too much sense.
It seems that the bureacrats in RailCorp don't like the idea of
entrepreneurs creating wealth and jobs by developing smart technology.
They would rather wait until they get round to doing it themselves
while getting taxpayers to pay for it.
David Bass
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