Paul Budde, respected communications commentator:
Quote:When this government was in opposition it claimed that an FttH rollout would cost $90 billion. We now know that it was plucking a number out of the air simply to scare people and at the time I was angry about that, as most of the media use those statements without doing their own proper investigation. Every statement a politician makes is regurgitated by most of the public media, with no fact checking. (Having learnt their lesson from lying politicians some of the media have since started to implement fact checking in their reporting.)
Once it was in government the Coalition then had to admit that the $90 billion figure was perhaps a bit too high; but at the same time it warned that an FttH-based NBN would still have cost Australia a shocking $56 billion. Fast forward to today and the government now states that, due to the many unknown costs linked to its retrofit policy, its second-rate version of the NBN would now also cost $56 billion.
With Project Fox technologies FTTH would have cost significantly less than the $56Bn the mishmash of incompatible, obsolete crap we are being saddled with. $56Bn is just the starting point, it will cost MUCH more than that!
Cost of delay caused by switching to the idiotic MTM:
Quote:So now we have a significantly delayed and far more costly NBN. However the real problem is that it will still only deliver a second-rate network – and this at a time when other countries are rolling out FttH. In Singapore 75% of users are already connected to FttH; and countries such as South Korea, Japan, Sweden, the Gulf States, Estonia and others are not far behind them
That is our trading partners and neighbors. NZ is rolling out FTTH as fast as it can.
The real cost of proceeding with outdated junk and Telstra crap copper:
Quote:My real problem is not the delay and the higher costs, but the fact that for all of that we get a network that will not deliver us the capacity and quality needed to build a modern economy and society.
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It also seems that he has under-estimated the rapid growth of the digital economy. His aim remains to deliver a network that provides 25Mb/s services to all Australians. Admittedly, those on FttH (20% of the population) will have much more, but if your aim is to provide equal opportunity to all (for example, those in outer metro suburbs, regional and rural Australia), as well as delivering ubiquitous services in the areas of telehealth and e-education, then everybody in the country needs to have access to a network that can deliver such services.
For instance, some people have extremely slow access to the MyGov website because many don’t have the broadband capacity needed to make effective use of this site. This is a clear indication that for such national services you need a network with ubiquitous quality.
25mbps will not apply to FTTN subscribers, they will be lucky to get 12:1. Useless for other than checking email, FaceBook and Twitter. Tragic that Malodorous is proceeding with this useless, expensive degradation of our economic, business, health and educational capabilities.
There is huge unfairness to the regions, you would think the Nats would be redhot for the NBN (rural councils certainly were, arranging co payments to get FTTH to areas that otherwise would miss out. But the Nats party is, again, not standing up for the people who vote for them:
Quote:But, aside from the social and economic requirements, many people in rural and regional Australia also have problems getting good quality access to entertainment services such as iView and Netflix. The minister seems to have under-estimated the incredible uptake of such services, as well as the use of smartphones and tablets, all of which require more capacity and better quality. In its latest report NBN Co also indicated it was surprised by the effect that Netflix has on its network – this despite the fact that people like me have warned about it for a long time.
Well, their aim is to please Telstra and Murdoch and stuff the nation. Smartphones, iPads etc mostly upload and download data via wifi, so they are adding extra load to the copper network and Netflix has, and is, adding more and more load on the network as people sign up for it every month.
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