ALP scrap the NBN

[Jovial Monk]

Obama acting to increase fast bb rollout (i.e. FTTH:)

President Barack Obama on Thursday signed an executive order intended to make broadband construction along federal roadways and properties in the United State more effective and up to 90 percent cheaper.

Building a nationwide broadband network will strengthen the U.S. economy and put more Americans back to work, the president said.

The White House also announced the establishment of U.S. Ignite, a public-private partnership aimed at creating a new wave of services that will bring together software developers and engineers from government and industry with representatives from communities, schools, hospitals and other institutions.

"We are creating and transmitting data at a rate of 8 trillion bits a second, and the road is just not large enough," W. Hord Tipton, executive director of (ISC)2 and former CIO of the U.S. Department of the Interior, told TechNewsWorld.

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[Neferti]

Have you checked when it is coming to your Street, Monk? They have a "Plan" don't they?

You will probably either be dead or in a Nursing Home, dribbling, when you can get NBN for 20 bucks a month and be able to download porn movies at lightning speed. By which time you will have forgotten what your penis is for.

[Super Nova]

I'm confussed, how about you.

If it feels like the cost of the national broadband network keeps on changing, that's because it is.

When the new Labor government announced plans to help the private sector upgrade Australia's telco infrastructure in 2007, it was going to contribute $4.7 billion.

Since then the task has changed into a different $43 billion project, then $36 billion and back up to a $37.4 billion project. It is no wonder taxpayers are confused about the cost.

Another confusion is the way the government and NBN Co are counting costs involved with starting the network as operating costs rather than capital costs.


Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/it-pro/governm ... z23cGC60MW

[Rorschach]

So far it's looking like the take up of the NBN will not meet their requirements. (Even when subsidised).

[Jovial Monk]

Got a link to support that boneheaded statement? You aware people just outside the fibre area are negotiating with NBN Co to get fibre? That rural councils outside the fibre area are doing likewise, that LNP politicians are lobbying hard to get their electorates wired up first? That 90% of those who are on the NBN are on speeds above the basic 12/1? That 50% are on 50/20 or 100/40?

I have talked about this here and my board giving links for each point. I suggest a couple of hours reading the Whirlpool NBN forum and so avoid sounding like a village idiot!

[Rorschach]

I've been warned you are self medicating... can i suggest you ease up a bit?

[Jovial Monk]

Care to stick to the subject?

[Rorschach]

Oh I thought you were the subject isn't that why you flame and ridicule those new members like you do?

You'll need to do better than that JM.

[Super Nova]

In the paper today in the UK

Ofcom this morning agreed to relax the rules on a chunk of the Everything Everywhere’s highest quality spectrum, the airwaves it uses to carry mobile signals, so that it can launch 4G services this year and allow much speedier access to the internet over mobile phones.

The operator will be allowed to effectively “flip a switch” on 11 September to create a network that will typically offer internet downloads 10 times faster than its existing 3G network. Eventually it will be able to offer download speeds that are three times faster than the current fixed-line broadband.

For a few years now I have disagreed with the Monk as to the benefit of NBN.

Here in the UK we will have 4G mobile networks that are 3 times faster for download than my my current lixed-line broadband... which is fast enough for everything I do. Browse, email, movies.... etc.

Also I can see trend in the architecture of future systems. We are returning to an older model where more processign is done locally on the PC relying on data in the cloud. We are moving from dumb browsers to spart browsers and applications. The need for continual huge volumes of traffic is not following the trend recently set over the past 10 years.

I think Australia is over investing in making this bet. Technology advancements in compression, how the applications are built and netwok capability, fibre, wired and wireless will advance significantly. Also our behaviour with smart phones ...etc is changing how we using computing. It is moving towards always on, always mobile always anywhere. We carry our primary computer with us everywhere. It's called a smart phone.

Who has a smart phone here?

[Rorschach]

Nope.
Don't even use a mobile.