Monk keeps reguritating his own lies because he ignores the facts.
Bugger off Monk, we've had enough of your lalalaing oh and the other ruder stuff.
Embrace reality or seek help.
Rorschach wrote:Malcolm Turnbull model installed with NBN speeds
* by: Chris Griffith
* From: The Australian
* September 03, 2013 12:00AM
MALCOLM Turnbull's fibre-copper hybrid internet solution has achieved 100 megabits per second download speeds in an enormous inner-Sydney apartment block, in what he sees as a vindication of Coalition policy.
Sydney Park Village is a massive complex of 810 apartments across 18 buildings in the city's inner-western suburbs, mainly full of young families and professional types: a demographic tuned in to the virtues of fast internet.
It's a good-news story for the Coalition's communications spokesman, who from opposition today is due to launch the network at the complex, situated about 1km from the electorate of Broadband Minister Anthony Albanese.
Eighteen months ago, the complex set about seeking a faster internet solution, and with the National Broadband Network not due locally until some time between 2015 and 2017, decided on working with a private carrier to install fast internet before the NBN. Eventually, network provider OPENetworks answered the call, making use of an Optus Wholesale fibre corridor running along the street outside.
The fibre has been linked to the complex's internal copper phone network. Last week, the first users came on board and reported download speeds of 93Mbps and upload speeds of 40Mbps.
The VDSL2 being used is not the souped-up vectoring protocol advocated by Mr Turnbull. Nevertheless, its speed is the current benchmark for the NBN although it's well short of the one gigabit or 1000Mbps download speed the NBN Co eventually wants internet service providers to deliver.
Plans offered by internet retailer Internode to Sydney Park Village residents start at $49.95 a month for 30GB at 12Mbps download speeds and 1Mbps upload speeds. For $94.95, residents can get 300GB and speeds of 100Mbps and 40Mbps. There is no installation fee on the 24-month contracts.
OPENetworks managing director Michael Sparksman said installing a VDSL2 internet service to an apartment using copper cost about $200 - half for equipment and half in labour. In contrast, retro-fitting a fibre connection into a building could cost more than $5000 for each apartment.
Peter Hanley, telecoms' technician of Optical Terminations, the contractor that installed the system, said many private fibre rollouts occurred along public thoroughfares in the heady days of the dot-com boom.
He said private last-mile providers, which connect homes and apartments to existing fibre installations, were put out of work after the NBN Co engaged large contractors to perform the work. Small contractors had now received a new lease of life due to people wanting to circumvent the long lead times and delays of the NBN rollout.
If Labor is re-elected, the NBN Co will return to the complex to install fibre in all apartments in the future. The Coalition sees a future in the private sector complementing the NBN's work.
Mr Turnbull said the Coalition was open to co-funding arrangements for the fibre rollout and would look at flexible models. That included wholesalers being able to sell their networks to the NBN Co, provided they met network standards.
He described the Sydney Park Village rollout as "a good illustration in Australia that fibre-to-the-node can deliver those very high speeds".
Mr Albanese's office did not comment, but a US-based broadband publication, Broadband Communities, said competing operators in Australia could build networks that undermined the NBN if it gave customers inferior technology.
"In countries around the world, these so-called competitive overbuilders are always ready to pounce.
"They profit from an incumbent's second-rate performance," said the publication.
Chris Griffith lives in Sydney Park Village and is paying for a broadband connection.
