NBN Business case released!

[Jovial Monk]

Pay television faces the big game changer

The deal that the AFL and NRL bosses strike over the next couple of weeks on the broadcasting rights of their respective codes will carbon date them.

To date the focus of attention has been the amount they will capture from the pay television provider Foxtel and the free-to-air networks.

But that is a very 2011 perspective - or a 2006 retrospective.

Sure, free-to-air television is the means by which most of us view sports programs, while 25 per cent of us access them via pay television.

But the world is moving on. Only this week Google said it was negotiating with the National Basketball Association in the US, other sporting codes, movie-makers and even celebrities to buy content directly.

It was a sign of the times. Internet providers are becoming first line program suppliers. They are cutting out the middleman and offering consumers the opportunity to access the programs they want - for a (smaller) fee.

http://www.smh.com.au/business/pay-tele ... 1c59g.html

Roll on NBN. . .

[Jovial Monk]

TV over IP one killer app for the NBN. Telehealth is turning out to be another—with reliable, high bandwidth networking and an increasing range of increasingly sophisticated monitoring equipment that can be used in the home a lot of pressure will be taken off the medical system, aged care and nursing homes etc etc.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/2 ... -Economy--

Research and Markets: Australia – Digital Economy – E-Health 2011

E-health may become an area where key killer applications which utilise truly high-speed broadband networks emerge. The Australian Government is a leader in strategic trans-sector thinking, linking e-health developments to the National Broadband Network. Early diagnosis and after-treatment patient monitoring are two areas where significant synergies may be found using applications provided to users at home.

As the financing of the public health systems in Australia becomes increasingly costly, an opportunity exists to lower costs through more effective use of web services for healthcare consumers. With widely available and cost effective high-speed broadband infrastructure, e-health is enabling customers to benefit from advances in medical technology and medical services.

While broader economic conditions in Australia may be subdued until 2011, spending on e-health solutions is likely to be boosted as part of the larger economic stimulus packages the government is currently enacting. Based on good government policies new private and public industry initiatives were launched in 2010. This report concentrates specifically on developments and projects in Australia.

So many nice things being written about here and obviously so many new private and public initiatives to debate

All great stuff to come iand being brought to us by yep you guessed it the NBN – and here is a practical example of that being implemented

E-health Neuroscience projects

http://www.neura.edu.au/news-events/new ... nd-network

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-re ... 87766&p=21

Then there is video telephone calls.

And HD porn for the likes of scum like IQ—will cross subsidise educational applications of the NBN.

[Jovial Monk]

Oh yeah, if you live in remote rural areas and are slated to be on wireless instead of fibre the CSIRO just may be able to give you 50mbps symmetrical broadband for 6 suscribers to a tower at a time:

http://nl.zdnet.com.au/0D5DheDBDB/Gfa4a

And hopefully the CSIRO will get a good stream of royalties on its patents!

[IQS.RLOW]

THE government has backflipped on one of its key promises to the regional independents by proposing to allow the National Broadband Network to charge different access prices to regional and rural Australians.

Documents on the NBN legislation circulated by Communications Minister Stephen Conroy reveal the NBN Co could one day have the discretion to charge different prices for bush communities using wireless and satellite services than their city counterparts using fibre-optic cable.

The government has vowed repeatedly that there would be uniform pricing across the nation, but explanatory notes to the laws now say: "The price for NBN Co's entry-level service must be the same across Australia and across NBN Co's fibre, wireless and satellite networks. However, the prices for higher-speed services only need to be uniform within a specified technology, and not across all technologies."

[Jovial Monk]

That all you got, account hacker?

[Jovial Monk]

Hahahahaha was watching HoR just now, discussion on NBn company Bill, Senate amendments.

Bob Katter gets up and passionately, very shouty, castigates the Opposition especially the Nationals.

“waiting for science fiction technology” to come about to make the speed of light (presumably) slower.

Stupid Nats, they actually drew up (Barnyard and Fiona Nash mainly) a plan for something nearly identical to the NBN. In Howard’s cabinet it got short thrift (that money could buy a lot of elections!) Now tho why don’t they show some guts and act more independently and actually support their constituents?

[Jovial Monk]

The idiotic ACCC decision to force 120 points of interconnect is going to entrench just a few ISPs as being able to connect directly:

NBN cost model 'entrenches' Telstra, Optus
Small-to-medium national ISPs 'dead' without sub-wholesalers.

Internode managing director Simon Hackett has claimed as few as five national ISPs have the scale to pay for a direct wholesale feed from NBN Co based on publicly available cost models.

Hackett told delegates of the CommsDay Summit in Sydney that any ISP with fewer than 250,000 customers nationally would only exist in an NBN world if they took a sub-wholesale feed from the likes of Telstra or Optus.

He said that the costs for an ISP to interconnect directly with NBN Co's network at a national level were particularly "insane" for access seekers with less than 10,000 customers across Australia.

Hackett produced calculations that showed connecting 10,000 customers to an entry-level NBN voice and data bundle - 12 Mbps with 30 GB quota - and sufficient backhaul bandwidth would cost $106 a user a month to provide.

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/252735,nb ... optus.aspx

[Super Nova]

I bother me when even school kids conclude NBN is a waste of money. I never thought of the relationship in this comment.

The … government wants to speed up the internet but it's going to slow it down with all these firewalls and proxies to stop you getting on to certain websites,'' Alex said. ''It doesn't seem as if it would work.''

Monk,
Are we going to lose much of the speed benfit becuase the federal government's proposed mandatory internet filter is going to slow everything down. What a waste. Speed it up only to slow it down to ensure Nanny state controls are put in place. The government does not belong in the WWW space. They will, like China be able to control what we see on the net. I am now even more against any government involvement in the web in Aust.

Kill NBN. Kill the filter project.

http://www.theage.com.au/technology/tec ... 1cesr.html

THE national broadband network may have secured the support of the independents and squeezed through Parliament but according to the next generation of internet users it's a waste of money.

Diamond Valley College, in Melbourne's north-east, was one of only two schools in Australia that made a submission to the federal inquiry into the role of the NBN.

The school surveyed 380 of its students and found they were prodigious internet users, with 99.5 per cent of them on Facebook. But year 11 student Alex Klammer believes the $35.9 billion broadband network is a waste of money.

The … government wants to speed up the internet but it's going to slow it down with all these firewalls and proxies to stop you getting on to certain websites,'' Alex said. ''It doesn't seem as if it would work.''

The federal government's proposed mandatory internet filter will stop blacklisted websites from being allowed past Australian internet service providers.

Alex and other students at Diamond Valley College were galvanised into making a submission to the inquiry after deciding that almost $40 billion was a fair chunk of change, and that the parliamentary committee holding the inquiry might be interested in how young people use the internet.

''We did a bit of research into it and it seemed like a good idea to have our say on it. We were the only school [students] to do it,'' Alex said.

The 214 submissions were dominated by local councils and universities. The Hutchins School in Tasmania was the only other school to participate, with a submission by its director of information services.

Diamond Valley College's submission included its survey, which also found 75 per cent of students in years 7 to 12 use the internet for chat sites and email, 88 per cent for music, 73 per cent for weather updates, 72 per cent for movies and 66 per cent for games.

Many students who attend the school live in Kinglake and other areas devastated on Black Saturday.

''Knowledge about community disasters like bushfires is also noted as a huge need … approximately 90 per cent of all young people living in bushfire-prone areas want to use the internet to protect their future safety,'' the students said in their submission.

But despite the submission pointing out that speeding up communication would be a ''huge benefit in the future'', Alex was not the only Diamond Valley College student to question the value of the NBN.

''I personally think the money could be used for better things like hospitals,'' said year 9 student Ashleigh Gentles, who helped write the submission. ''I feel the internet is sufficient for use now.''

The federal inquiry into the role and potential of the NBN is due to report in August.

[Jovial Monk]

Nah, when Fielding pisses off in July the filter will be quietly ditched.

Why do people say “we should use the money for________” when there ain’t no money that can be redirected? Nah, NBN is needed and will benefit even those using only wireless—of course, for most of the journey, the “wireless” signal travels along wires.

[mellie]

My god, if Labor cant even secure their network, how do you expect them to be bothered hiring the right tech people to maintain a NBN?


I'll save Gillards incompetent cabinet the trouble, and just send my emails to Obama myself....thats what she did...