Fibre to the Home very fast broadband proposal

[Jovial Monk]

Study shows NBN will be good for economy:

http://www.itwire.com/content/view/24950/127/1/0/

The proposed National Broadband Network (NBN) will potentially deliver significant long-term benefits to the Australian economy but it will be a major challenge just to get private funding into the project, let alone give investors a good return on their money.

At least, that’s the opinion of market analysts and consultancy firm, Frost & Sullivan, who, in their latest market insight report, predict that the government's proposed fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) NBN can potentially deliver significant long term benefits to Australia's economy, but warns that it will face a number of challenges including, it says, “the difficulty of achieving a return on investment, pricing for NBN access, and the growing migration from fixed line to wireless access.”

Questioning whether the “massive investment” in the NBN “will pay off”, Frost & Sullivan stresses that one of the earliest challenges confronting the NBN is the need to attract sufficient private sector investment.

The study does point out the swing to wireless but not how much of that is due to the copper system not being suitable for ADSL due to under-investment in its network by Telstra (esp pair gain) and Howard's "brilliant" decision to raise line rental costs. Only a very few places have FTTP--Korea and Amsterdam among them.

One new use would be for electricity companies to monitor 'smart meters' with many others to come. Gigabit internet, can't wait! Will it cost more? Maybe but at home I have both a phone line and slow old wireless networking, suggesting two off setting savings.

[Jovial Monk]

On qanda last night someone asked the panel what event/trend may kick the Aust economy out of its present doldrums. Apparently, often it was some technological development.

Finance Minister Tanner waxed very eloquent about the potential of the NBN to kickstart economic activity as people see and develop killer applications for it. This is most likely! Thank fuck the tired Fib govt got kicked out--imagine Tip trying to struggle with the GFC hahahahahaha!

[Jovial Monk]

Oh dear, Sheepy won't like this!

US net pioneer hails Rudd's 'breathtaking' network

CALL him Kevin Rudd's $43billion man. Larry Smarr, a 60-year-old US physicist and one of the pioneers of the internet, says the Rudd Government's announcement last month of a new broadband network is "breathtaking" and puts Australia at the forefront of government policy around the world embracing "intelligent infrastructure".

He should know. It was Professor Smarr's advocacy, publicly and privately, in meetings with Mr Rudd and other ministers over the past 18 months, that helped convince the Rudd Government to announce its $43billion national broadband plan.

It has the world talking. Tomorrow the biggest and brightest in technology and the internet will gather in San Diego for the annual "Future in Review" conference -- described by The Economist as the best technology gathering on the planet -- with panels devoted entirely to Australia.

"Australia is on the docket," said the San Diego-based Professor Smarr.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/st ... 71,00.html

Some fuckwits are saying the govt shouldn't sell shares in the NBN company without a prospectus etc. These boneheads, like Sheepy & LOW_IQ, forget that the govt isn't selling shares to the public, just infrastructure bonds which the govt can do whenever it likes.

[Jovial Monk]

From PB:

The latest OECD Report on Broadband Around the World:

For broadband penetration, Australia is 16/30, just behind USA, at OECD average.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/200 ... cribe2.jpg

As for affordability, Australia is expensive 28/30, above average.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/200 ... rices2.jpg

So the public will take to the NBN and without Telstra charging high prices to retailers (ISPs) the cost will go down.

A fucking brilliant decision even if technically a broken election promise.

[Jovial Monk]

Hmm came across an article talking about 4G mobile networking.

A breathtaking 4mps, obtainable if you stand directly under the WIMAX tower at midnight when it isn't raining and no one else is sharing the bandwidth of the tower. Remarkable, NOT! FTTH 1gibabit/second regardless of weather and the number of people on-line sounds more better!

[Jovial Monk]

Hmmm Conroy speaking at that Community Cabinet about the FTTH: tenders for backbone construction about to be let. This shit will happen FAST! Weeeeehaaaa!!!!