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[wog_girl]

Australians pick cheaper broadband, quality over fast speeds

Summary: A poll by research group Roy Morgan has found that Australians overwhelmingly choose a cheaper deal for broadband rather than faster connection speeds, while an Australian Industry group survey shows businesses are more concerned about quality and reliability.

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Speed of broadband services ranks low in the priorities of both Australian businesses and consumers, according to two surveys released today.

As most businesses focused on the cost for services, Ai Group CEO Innes Willox welcomed the new Coalition government's promise to look to reduce the cost of services on the National Broadband Network (NBN).

Broadband speeds are very uniform today and offer little choice so of course people are going to choose the cheaper deals. Why pay more for something that is only a fraction better? The idea of the NBN was to deliver much faster speeds and give people more choice. I'm confident that people will rank broadband speeds much higher when they have the choice between current speeds and what will be on offer in the immediate future. Costs are always a factor but prices should decrease in future as the new services find their feet and are more available.

[Rorschach]

Hey SN...
remember Monk being anti mobile/wifi/etc....
remember him saying it wasn't the way to go and had no future?
was I imagining that and him calling us fools?

Re: NBN Co posts $932m operating loss
Reply #79 - Today at 5:48pm Quote
Sortius on mobile providers and the NBN:

http://www.sortius-is-a-geek.com/mobile ... -dont-get/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

A real NBN could help mobile bb with micro cells.

Seems Sorryarse monks best bud in thing IT may have changed his mind.
or am I misinterpreting things

[Super Nova]

Hey SN...
remember Monk being anti mobile/wifi/etc....
remember him saying it wasn't the way to go and had no future?
was I imagining that and him calling us fools?

Re: NBN Co posts $932m operating loss
Reply #79 - Today at 5:48pm Quote
Sortius on mobile providers and the NBN:

http://www.sortius-is-a-geek.com/mobile ... -dont-get/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

A real NBN could help mobile bb with micro cells.

Seems Sorryarse monks best bud in thing IT may have changed his mind.
or am I misinterpreting things

Love it. The end of the article sums up the position we have argued.

For me, mobile/cellular/whatever you want to call them, are the future, but not the only future. They will coexist with fixed line connections right up until we develop quantum communications, something that’s a far way off. So until this happens we need to always think: fixed line first, wireless second. Why? Well, our behaviour & technological limitations dictate why.

- Mobile is the future. (article confirmed)
- Fixed is required until we sort out the mobile technology that we are not taking seriously at the moment. (article confirmed)
- NBN fixed is a stop gap until we develop the real solution. (quantum communications) (article confirmed)
- If there are significant advances soon, then the NBN investment will not be value for money. (article is silent on this)
- NBN appears to be really considering mobile as part of it's core solution... as we said it should. (article confirmed)
- The mobile operators should get fucked as this article suggests. (article confirmed)

All in all, this guy agrees with our argument around mobile mostly however implies that fixed first before mobile is the current strategy for NBN because the mobile operators are crap and NBN should not solve their comms backbone problems. Fair enough.

However, if NBN took into account the mobile operators and made them fix their backbone, NBN could have been implemented more efficiently in my mind rather than a one size fits all approach. NBN seems to be paying for the Mobiles operators lack of investment. Why not, that's what tax payers money is for.

[Neferti]

Monk has always thought the the ALP NBN would deliver very fast downloads to his computer for next to nothing. At one stage he quoted $20 a MONTH. Talk about a dreamer! God knows what sort of computer he has, no doubt a cheapie.

I just got a new one:-

i7-3820 Processor 3.6 GHz
32 GB RAM
2 GB AMD Radeon HD7870 graphics card
2 TB HDD
Windows 8.1

The laptop is a 2 year old Toshiba with Win 7.

[Rorschach]

http://www.zdnet.com/fttb-success-unear ... &ttag=e551

While the likely real-world performance of fibre-to-the-node (FttN) technology is still very much up in the air when it comes to broad deployment across our suburbs, it is hardly drawing a long bow to suggest that the placement of those nodes in the basement of an apartment block would be the most painless way of delivering well-specced broadband to large numbers of people.

The cables between the basement and each individual unit in the block are ideally suited for supporting VDSL2 technology – being both physically short and, in most cases, far younger than the copper network services on the same street if only because MDUs have typically been constructed more recently than the surrounding houses.

Labor's insistence on running fibre to every apartment block represented a blind spot in the party's broadband vision that, while perhaps admirable in its consistency, was also fatally flawed in that its dogmatic insistence deferred what should have been an easy element of the rollout.

[Super Nova]

Great article. A little common sense goes a long way to improving the value for money equation.

NBN should be renamed NCSBN where CS is common sense.

It is the clear arguments presented over the last 4 years to the monk for spending the money more wisely are starting to come true now some consideration to cost vs benefit are occurring with the new government.

I nice xmas present for the nation.

[DaS Energy]

Even if you don't pay out even more money to use it, you pay for the cable anyway, hah hah no choice in that, a merry little Christmas present.

[IQS.RLOW]

White Elephant Watch

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Korean carriers to launch broadband-shaming 300Mbps LTE-Advanced network this year.
SK Telecom will actually be showcasing even better 450Mbps tech in February at Mobile World Congress

Shove that one up your ALP loving fat arse, Monk.
You wasteful piece of shit.

[Neferti]

White Elephant Watch

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Korean carriers to launch broadband-shaming 300Mbps LTE-Advanced network this year.
SK Telecom will actually be showcasing even better 450Mbps tech in February at Mobile World Congress

Shove that one up your ALP loving fat arse, Monk.
You wasteful piece of shit.

That simian (Monk) has to be the most rusted-on Labor voter, evah!

PS Of course the above could be pure BS but no more so than what Monk sucks up from sorryarse and co.

He is over <--------------------------------- still telling LIES about everything, including Tony Abbott.

[Super Nova]

Now this is an innovative solution for outback NBN.

Pity NBN is waste so much money on yesterday's ideas. Remember Monk saying wireless is not the future .. it is to laugh.

Facebook buying 11,000 drones to connect Africa

Social network in negotiations to buy a drone manufacturer with the aim of using its high-altitude autonomous aircraft to beam internet connections to isolated communities

Facebook is in negotiations to buy a drone manufacturer with the aim of using its high-altitude autonomous aircraft to beam internet connections to isolated communities in Africa, according to reports.



The social networking company is one of the main backers of the internet.org project, which aims to connect the large parts of the world which remain offline.

Today, only 2.7 billion people – just over one-third of the world's population – have access to the internet, according to Facebook. Other founding members include Ericsson, MediaTek, Nokia, Opera, Qualcomm and Samsung.

Now TechCrunch reports that Facebook intends to buy the maker of advanced solar-powered drones which can remain in the air for up to five years at a time, in the hope that they can be modified to provide internet connectivity for those on the ground.

Titan Aerospace's drones fly so high – up to 65,000 feet - that they can effectively operate as satellites with far lower operating costs, which the company calls "atmospheric parking". The Solara 50 and 60 models can carry up to 100kg of equipment.

TechCrunch reports that Facebook intends to build 11,000 of the drones to provide blanket internet coverage to parts of the world that currently have patchy or non-existent connections.

Neither Facebook or Titan Aerospace were available for comment.

The project would be in direct competition with Google’s Project Loon, which will see 30 balloons launched into the stratosphere where they would form a network and programmed to use varying wind currents at different altitudes to remain in a geostationary position.

If successful, the project would provide 3G-like speeds to isolated parts of the world. But the lifespan of the balloons would be just 100 days, after which they would return to Earth and have to be replaced.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/f ... frica.html