nbn takeup failure

[sprintcyclist]

NBN Co, which has 784 staff, has at most 607 customers after Julia Gillard and Communications Minister Stephen Conroy launched the first NBN site on the mainland in Armidale yesterday, with just seven users. And none of the network's users is a paying customer yet.

Opposition communications spokesman Malcolm Turnbull last night seized on the figures, declaring them further proof that the government should have done a cost-benefit analysis of the $36 billion project. Given the "great hoopla" when the Prime Minister connected seven customers in Armidale, Mr Turnbull said, "who knows what tumultuous celebrations will occur when the NBN's customers actually exceed their staff".

"It will be possibly declared a national holiday," he said............


...........NBN Co confirmed yesterday that there were about 600 "active services" in Tasmania - a take-up of about 15 per cent of the 4000 premises the network had passed in the towns of Smithton, Scottsdale and Midway Point since it started last July...........

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nationa ... 6058566125

what figures were the alp dreaming of ?? 80 % was it ?
is that the fugure they based this wasteful exercise on ?

[Hebe]

They're certainly rolling it out in places that seem set up to fail. I wish they'd roll it out here.

[Jovial Monk]

Me first!

[Hebe]

Most of the problems in Tasmania have been with phones and the poor deals offered by the service providers, otherwise the people using it are extremely happy with the speed, especially business people.

[Jovial Monk]

Yeah, inc the school that originally got slow speeds (which the national shit sheet duly gloated over) until more backhaul was provisioned. A school in Armidale talked to that school in Tas, 40ms ping! Despite the RSP streaming video constantly the two schools communicated at some fantastic speed! With my stupid wireless BB I can only dream of high speeds and low pings!

[sprintcyclist]

Yeah, inc the school that originally got slow speeds (which the national shit sheet duly gloated over) until more backhaul was provisioned. A school in Armidale talked to that school in Tas, 40ms ping! Despite the RSP streaming video constantly the two schools communicated at some fantastic speed! With my stupid wireless BB I can only dream of high speeds and low pings!

what would you do so much better on a faster connection ?

Apart than watch small puppies run up hills in hi def ?

[Pastafarian]

Yeah, inc the school that originally got slow speeds (which the national shit sheet duly gloated over) until more backhaul was provisioned. A school in Armidale talked to that school in Tas, 40ms ping! Despite the RSP streaming video constantly the two schools communicated at some fantastic speed! With my stupid wireless BB I can only dream of high speeds and low pings!

what would you do so much better on a faster connection ?

Apart than watch small puppies run up hills in hi def ?

Personally I wouldnt be able to do much, but a mate of mine is a good example. He develops software for POS applications and works from home. At the moment, whenever he has to work on a new program with the current net speed, it takes a full 8 hr day for him to download the program to begin work on it. With the NBN, he eckons that will be cut to 30 minutes.

[Jovial Monk]

Video (incl TV) on demand will grow. Cloud computing/online backup will provide a way for people to back up the increasingly large digicam photos and, increasingly, videos.

Then in many families there is more than one device connected to the net: TVs (increasingly so) PCs/pads etc, phones (Skype at highdef will be the early killer application) and so on. Then there would be things like high def YouTubes where I would currently pass on downloading because wireless broadband sucks.

Imagine gaming at these sort of speeds:


The NBN will also be the backbone, as femtocells become popular, for mobile phone and bb.

Educational uses will become vast, health applications where the aged, the frail can leave hospital and stay at home and with a simple gadget they can test and upload: blood sugar, blood pressure, temperature, even an ECG. These devices exist now but most here can’t use them because of our crap internet we have thanks to John bloody Howard and Peter useless Costello.

Somewhat longer term the internet of things, smart meters, smart appliances

Just a few things straight off the top of my head—and I haven’t covered business and govt.

At sometime a killer application will come, much like internet is the killer application for the copper CAN.

[Plough]

Yeah, inc the school that originally got slow speeds (which the national shit sheet duly gloated over) until more backhaul was provisioned. A school in Armidale talked to that school in Tas, 40ms ping! Despite the RSP streaming video constantly the two schools communicated at some fantastic speed! With my stupid wireless BB I can only dream of high speeds and low pings!

what would you do so much better on a faster connection ?

Apart than watch small puppies run up hills in hi def ?

I think porn downloading will be taken to whole new level nationally. And there was much rejoicing!!!

[Jovial Monk]

Porn will doubtless pay for the NBN by itself. And so subsidise educational and health use.