National Broadband Network

[Neferti]

It can't be fitted to the exterior of my home or carport and I definitely don't want all that crap in my study. I would assume it has to be away from "public view and tampering" as it IS, apparently, a Government property, much as your electricity box, etcetera is.

[Black Orchid]

I imagine it can't be fitted to the outside of homes as it would be very sensitive to moisture etc. It would be the garage or nothing for me. Even in the garage it would be a pain.

[Rorschach]

yet another opinion...

Slow down, the future is foggy
* by: CHRISTOPHER PEARSON
* From: The Australian
* April 13, 2013 12:00AM

JOURNALISTS and the commentariat love to talk about the need for the party in opposition to release policies in the run-up to a general election. It doesn't really matter how many speeches and policy documents are released, there will still be a clamour for more.

When policies are put out for public consumption, the response will generally be one of two themes: there is not enough detail and the opposition is pursuing a "small-target" strategy and cleverly avoiding scrutiny, or there is too much detail and the opposition is declared to have done a Hewson and skewered itself by being too honest.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/opinion ... 6618644738" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Rorschach]

The Coalition this week launched our plan for Fast Broadband and an Affordable NBN.

Here’s what a few of the experts said about our plan:

The Australian Financial Review editorial today said:

“The cut down version of the NBN released by Opposition Leader Tony Abbott and telecommunications spokesman Malcolm Turnbull effectively provides a cost benefit alternative, although constrained by the fact that many of the financial contracts for the NBN have been locked in place in the meantime. But the essential difference - less risk for taxpayers, less smothering of competition and a quicker build but less increase in overall broadband speeds - seems to make it the better option.”
Read the full editorial here.

The Australian editorial:

“Labor has made a fundamental misjudgment about broadband and by stubbornly sticking to its guns, it is committing current and future taxpayers and consumers to unnecessarily high costs. Instead of encouraging private telcos to satisfy market demand (with appropriate government subsidies and incentives for regional areas), it has reversed decades of telecommunications and competition reform by building a massive government monopoly.”
Read full editorial here.

Ian Martin, one of Australia’s top telecommunications analysts, wrote of the Coalition’s plan:

“Perhaps the most important feature of Turnbull's plan is the better matching of resources with likely benefit as people's usage of broadband increases, keeping spending in line with people's willingness to pay.”
Read more here ($).

Grahame Lynch, the founder of telco industry publication CommsDay and a former group editorial director of America's Network and Telecom Asia wrote:

“The beauty of Malcolm Turnbull's solution is that it pushes fibre out closer to the customer, within hundreds of metres in some cases, helping delivering higher speeds but at a much lower labour and cost requirement because it uses the existing copper in the street.”
Read more.

The technology writer and broadcaster Stilgherrian wrote:

“There weren’t many surprises in the Coalition’s plan for the national broadband rollout, released today. But now the battle lines are drawn: Labor’s NBN verses Malcolm Turnbull’s cut-price, not-quite-as-fast model. And Turnbull nailed the policy announcement today.”
Full article here.

Kevin Morgan, a respected telecommunications adviser wrote:

“NBN Co is far from being a start-up and the problems that have stymied its progress, such as the need to train and mobilise a construction workforce, were all foreseeable in 2009. NBN Co has failed miserably to plan for them. At the end of last year, NBN Co had as many full-time staff as contract staff in the field, and its contractors still can't find the 8,000 workers they need by mid-year to meet targets. It's within this train wreck that the Coalition has been obliged to frame their policy.
Read more here.

The Coalition’s plan will ensure the National Broadband Network is rolled out faster and cheaper, resulting in lower prices for consumers.

[Rorschach]

Ultra HDTV 'not enough to justify NBN'
* by: Annabel Hepworth, National business correspondent
* From: The Australian
* April 16, 2013 12:00AM

SUPER high-definition television alone is not a sufficient benefit to justify an investment as big as the National Broadband Network and nobody has been able to articulate uses that would drive mass-market demand for a fibre-to-the-home network.

These are the findings of two advisers to the telecommunications sector, who warn that broadband policy will need to be revised no matter which party wins the federal election. In a new joint submission to the committee chaired by independent MP Rob Oakeshott to oversee the NBN rollout, the consultants also warn that if a high-cost fibre-to-the-home NBN feeds those costs through to retail prices, in turn curbing demand, "then ironically the economics of an NBN intended to be egalitarian could in fact become elitist in practice".

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/busines ... 6621147225" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[mellie]

Get the message fuck-tool, we need Conroys NBN with a Liberal business plan.

[Super Nova]

Get the message fuck-tool, we need Conroys NBN with a Liberal business plan.

Yes..... spot on....
Where is Monk?
Go look at the first NBN threads here. All predicted. White elephants under any Labor government always look the same.

[IQS.RLOW]

You won't get Conroys NBN plan under the LIbs because its pandering to the fat arse tards like Mellies son who spend their life playing games with dreams of setting up their own minecraft server to make them rich.

The way tech is going, it will always be wireless that will be at the forefront of development because as a business model it requires the least amount of infrastructure to service the maximum amount clients and is easily upgradable and easily portable. Sure FTTH will always be faster but what good will $90bn be spent 20 years down the track when the tech, the compression algorithms and the software are all designed for mobile wireless?

You'll have a shitload of unused bandwidth that you have no idea what do do with and no one to deliver it to or from you, except for your buddies in a late night gaming death match (as long as your in Australia) or sharing illegal downloads faster than anyone else (as long as your in Australia)

By the time that there happens to be an app (that not one geek fucking idiot can come up with so far) that is a game changer, wireless will have advanced again to provide what is needed- again, it won't be be as fast as the FTTH but it won't be needed.

The ALP model is the equivalent to rolling out the NB56KMODEM to every home for $10000ea because "OMG guyz- this will be teh fastest thingz EVAR111!!!111"

The only people that need a physical pipe like that have already got them and they are servicing hospitals, universities and other depts that have to cater to a multi users that require it. A residential address does not need it, they don't require it and odds on that they never will.

This is the most unproductive waste of money the country has ever seen by a govt in the history of Australia.

[Rorschach]

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/austral ... 6622152248" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Japan blitzes NBN fibre speeds
* by: Chris Griffith
* From: The Australian
* April 17, 2013 7:48AM

JAPAN has launched a lightning fast fibre service that makes even Labor's promised NBN speeds look flaccid.


http://www.theaustralian.com.au/austral ... 6622152248" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[mellie]

You won't get Conroys NBN plan under the LIbs because its pandering to the fat arse tards like Mellies son who spend their life playing games with dreams of setting up their own minecraft server to make them rich.

The way tech is going, it will always be wireless that will be at the forefront of development because as a business model it requires the least amount of infrastructure to service the maximum amount clients and is easily upgradable and easily portable. Sure FTTH will always be faster but what good will $90bn be spent 20 years down the track when the tech, the compression algorithms and the software are all designed for mobile wireless?

You'll have a shitload of unused bandwidth that you have no idea what do do with and no one to deliver it to or from you, except for your buddies in a late night gaming death match (as long as your in Australia) or sharing illegal downloads faster than anyone else (as long as your in Australia)

By the time that there happens to be an app (that not one geek fucking idiot can come up with so far) that is a game changer, wireless will have advanced again to provide what is needed- again, it won't be be as fast as the FTTH but it won't be needed.

The ALP model is the equivalent to rolling out the NB56KMODEM to every home for $10000ea because "OMG guyz- this will be teh fastest thingz EVAR111!!!111"

The only people that need a physical pipe like that have already got them and they are servicing hospitals, universities and other depts that have to cater to a multi users that require it. A residential address does not need it, they don't require it and odds on that they never will.

This is the most unproductive waste of money the country has ever seen by a govt in the history of Australia.

You won't get Conroys NBN plan under the LIbs because its pandering to the fat arse tards like Mellies son who spend their life playing games with dreams of setting up their own minecraft server to make them rich.

My son has just been selected from over 400 students from his college to travel overseas and set up low-cost energy efficient computers with a brand new chip set I am not supposed to talk about.

My son has more IQ in his foreskin than you have in your entire body.




That and probably earns more money than you at his tender age also.

Why?

Because unlike you, he has a life away from fun and games on his computer, and has his priorities in order.