No More NBN

[Jovial Monk]

Great article! BT demonstrating 10Gbps over normal fibre—BT seems to realise that the FTTN Malcolm Turnbull so desperately champions and BT is rolling out to some households is inadequate—it is offering FTTH as well and I think the FTTN will be quietly dropped.

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Bit further down the article mentions:

The 10Gbps trial runs over high speed fibre optic network established by the Superfast Cornwall Programme, a broadband partnership between the EU, BT and Cornwall Council, which has made fibre optic broadband available to over 100,000 Cornish homes and businesses.

This is like rural councils and even Nat & rural Lib MPs, trying to get the NBN into their electorate first (before Tone kills it, of course) and the councils outside of the fibre area talking to NBN Co about co payment to get the fibre to their areas. Cornwall is a richer, more populous area than a typical rural shire here so could run its own system.

Until recently, Arcol’s 40 staff had shared a 1.5Mbps internet connection, according to BT. The Superfast Cornwall Programme has delivered high speed fibre-to-the-premise to the business park enabling Arcol to connect at 330Mbps. Alun Morgan, technical director at Arcol, said the ability to connect at such fast speeds was “opening the door” for the company to achieve much more.

“We are still only just discovering the sorts of things we can do with these speeds, such as taking advantage of services like videoconferencing and using a cloud-based ERP system so we can access this information elsewhere, and it has enabled us to be much more efficient and aggressive,” Morgan said.

[Rorschach]

Bogged-down NBN threatening to be another Labor disaster
Andrew Bolt
Wednesday, August, 01, 2012, (8:28am)


Labor’s $36 billion broadband gamble already looks a losing bet - way behind schedule and over budget:

DELAYS to the $36 billion National Broadband Network have forced a deep cut to its construction targets in a new business plan that shows the project will reach less than a quarter of the homes first promised by the time of the next election …

Tomorrow’s update blames the rollout troubles on technical challenges, natural disasters and a nine-month delay to a crucial deal with Telstra, under which millions of phone lines will be gradually upgraded to NBN cable…

NBN Co figures posted ahead of the business plan release show optical fibre is expected to pass about 235,000 premises by next June, well below the 950,000 target in a December 2010 plan.

The figures also show the number of homes passed in new housing estates—known as “greenfield” connections—is forecast at 22,500 by June rather than the original 319,000 target. Fixed-wireless services for homes beyond the reach of the high-speed cable are tipped to total 18,500 by June rather than the original 283,000 target, in NBN Co spreadsheets analysed by The Australian.

The outlook appears to be below independent forecasts made after the Telstra deal was signed in June last year.

Absolutely nothing that wasn’t predicted from the start. Big Government. Picking winners. Monopoly. No cost-benefit analysis. Betting on static network connections, rather than the mobile ones consumers want.

What could possibly go wrong ... except everything?

[Jovial Monk]

Good thing about Gillard winning in 2013, the NBN will be fully run out.

[Aussie]

Good thing about Gillard winning in 2013, the NBN will be fully run out.

That is why I am thinking about why the Right bothers. It is now fact. It is going to happen. Spilled milk. The egg has been scrambled.

[Jovial Monk]

Like last election, the LNP nominated John Alexander for Bennelong. Ever since, JA sits there in QT, never asks a question or anything. What a waste of space! Yet Lib ranks are full of those! No renewal, no rebuilding, all Tone can think of is going back to Howard’s days!

Not a hint of imagination anywhere!

Can anyone here see Tone finally creating a MD Basin plan agree by the four states? A 115 years after such a plan was mooted? Nah! All that negotiating would be beyond Tone.

[Rorschach]

ROTFLMAO

How many questions are permitted in Question time by the Government?
Gee that's hardly enough to go round now is it.

Can anyone here see Tone finally creating a MD Basin plan agree by the four states? A 115 years after such a plan was mooted? Nah! All that negotiating would be beyond Tone.

You mean the one started by the Howard government of which he was a part JM? that one? You never read anything do you dunderklumpen.
hate to tell you, but that just makes you look really stupid.

[Rorschach]

I just love the ignorance and stupidity of this part of the statement...

A 115 years after such a plan was mooted?

How many Labor governments in that period?
I'll even cut you slack considering federation didn't occur till 1901.
But not about the number of plans instigated by various governments in the interim; state federal local.

Better clarify that for the pedant.

I'm pointing out that many governments have been around in the 115 years mentioned.

[Jovial Monk]

Just look at the NBN to see the difference!

Libs: 18 different BB plans under Howard—nothing actually done.

Libs: privatise Telstra as an integrated wholesale/retail monopoly despite the industry pleadings, despite Tanner pleading for structural separation. Total fucking disaster.

Lab: plan NBN Mk1. Due insufficient detail in the registrations of interest Rudd & Conway listen to Panel of Experts and go for NBN Mk 2 and this is being rolled out. Telstra got structural separation forced on it. I plan, modified and actually being rolled out.

[Rorschach]

You idiot.... how many governments came up with the plan b4 this moronic lot? Hmmm. Did Hawke? Keating? No gee do you ever wonder why? Perhaps it could be that they felt that such an arrangement should be a PRIVATE concern. Or that spending so much money on an ever changing technology was irrational.

The privatisation of Telstra (though not something i agree with) was not a total disaster... You are lying again.
I also didn't agree with Tanner's plan but preferred it over Howard's.

By the time NBN Co. finish rolling it out it will almost be time to start digging it up and replacing it with new technology, or letting it rot in the ground overpriced and under-utilised.

[Jovial Monk]

The NBN will be rolled out. The nine percent still on dialup will finally get decent speeds as will those stuck with crappy wireless. New services and applications will follow, generating employment and economic activity. Australia will be able to provide innovative services to Asia—the biggest, most developed English speaking nation in Asia!