...ask anyone: before this it was just ya average police state with nothing much to do 

Go the clever country that built the Asian century 

** Yeh, colin will be remembered- just like howard and costello and those other couple of follow-ons 

NBN regional connections to cost about $7000 per premise
Nick Whigham news.com.au APRIL 11, 20171:10PM

PROVIDING every Australian with a quality home internet connection is undeniably a mammoth task — and one that certainly doesn’t come cheap.

The country’s National Broadband Network (NBN) will spend an average of $7000 per rural household in order to connect them to the nationwide network.

Regional residents have been a focus in the early years of the rollout in a push to bridge the often cited digital divide between Australia’s cities and rural areas.

Those outside major cities will be able to access the NBN via its fixed wireless towers or Sky Muster satellite service, the total cost of which will be about $4.5 billion to the taxpayer. That level of investment comes with a $7000 per household price tag to connect premises, according to a report by market research firm Ovum.

NBN’s fixed wireless service was launched in 2011 and will provide access for more than 600,000 rural premises by 2020.

Currently the fixed wireless network is delivering services to more than 175,000 end-users across the country but on Thursday the company announced it had reached the key footprint milestone of 500,000 premises.

The report by Ovum, which was commissioned by the NBN, aims to highlight the level of investment the taxpayer-funded company has spent on regional areas compared to its global counterparts.

The report notes that countries such as Ireland, France, Canada and the UK are all spending less than $1000 per household on regional broadband rollout.

Despite Australia’s broadband speeds slipping in global rankings, the report focuses on the mandate to provide a minimum of 25Mbps, even for those Aussies in the most remote parts of the country.

“With a minimum available wholesale speed of 25Mbps for all end-users, irrespective of their location or technology platform, Australia has set the bar far higher than seen in equivalent markets such as the United States, the UK, Canada or France,” the report notes.

Recent fixed wireless trials by NBN Co saw the company achieve download speeds of 1Gbps as it works towards the goal of accelerating peak speeds on its wireless network to 100Mbps.

“The NBN Fixed Wireless network plays a key role in ensuring there is no digital divide between urban and regional Australia,” NBN chief executive Bill Morrow said in a statement attached to the Ovum report.

Due to the immense size of Australia’s continent and the country’s low population density the difficulties and financial challenges of a universal service obligation are self evident. According to the government, the NBN fixed wireless and satellite services are expected to generate a net loss of $9.8 billion over 30 years.

So the government has plans to introduce a so-called “NBN tax” which will see the big ISPs that provide fixed line services slugged with a monthly tax of about $7.10 per end-user.

The idea of an NBN tax was first made public in December when the Communications department began consulting with industry on the idea. It’s expected to introduce the regional broadband scheme (RBS) charge bill to parliament in the coming months.

Provided it passes ISPs will likely pass the tax onto consumers meaning those in the city will effectively subsidise those on regional NBN services.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/online/nbn/nbn-regional-connections-to-cost-ab...


And Telstra admits to overcharging.

http://www.news.com.au/technology/online/nbn/telstra-admits-to-overcharging-some...


But fantastic NBN speed is just around the corner

http://www.news.com.au/technology/online/nbn/nbn-trialling-new-super-fast-techno...

Faster than a speeding bullet - your shiny new NBN service.

Why has NBN been installed fiber to the premises in areas like S Perth, where they can get ADSL2+ at NBN speeds, while there are no plans at all for NBN in next 4 years for places like Morley where there is no ADSL available and 3G/4G costs up to $20 per GB? 3G in Kazakfstan costs 40 cents a GB!



nbn speeds for the end user
Posted on May 25, 2016

What is the first thing that you do when your shiny new nbn™ service is activated? You run some form of speed test to determine if it is really as fast as touted by the Industry experts over the last 7 years. The National Broadband Network (nbn™) since its inception has been advertised as a fast and reliable Internet service for Australians regardless of their location.

The available bandwidth-to-end-user on nbn™ has greatly improved many services for end-users and changed the way we consume most services. For example, this has completely obliterated the DVD-rental industry in Australia as high definition media is now available to be streamed online at a fraction of cost and more conveniently.

Not only has nbn™ greatly improved many services for end-users, it has also resulted in cost-savings for businesses with the availability of Cloud based services. Cloud services eliminate the need for physical server/IT Infrastructure for businesses locally and shared synergies for the provider means the fees for Cloud services are not as high as they used to be, allowing more users to come on-board.

nbn™ is currently being delivered over different technologies like Fibre Optic (Fibre to the premises or FTTP), Combination of Fibre to the Node and Last-mile Copper (FTTN), Wireless and Satellite etc. The end-user speed testing methods I will discuss in this article will apply to most technologies except Satellite.

nbn™ Plan Speeds Explained

nbn™ plans come with speed tiers. For example a 25/5 tier means up to 25 megabits per second downloads and 5 megabits per second uploads. Available plan tiers with iiNet are 12/1, 25/5 and 100/40.

It’s important to note that the unit of speeds mentioned are Mbps – “Megabits per second” but when you download from the Internet the speed presented to you is usually MB/s – “MegaBytes per second”. Mathematically 8 Bits make up 1 Byte. So on a 25 Mbps connection, the theoretical maximum download speed would be 3.125 MB/s – that is you divide the plan speed by “8”.

However the theoretical maximum speeds aren’t what you will always receive when connecting to the Internet. So what are the factors that impact your actual speed? Well answer is a bit complicated and depends on the activity you are performing.

Content Delivery Network (CDN)

Any activity you perform on the Internet, involves the following steps: data is requested by your device when you initiate the activity, the request is sent to a server over the Internet and the server then responds with the content that is delivered to your device over the Internet.

For example when you enter iiNet’s web address in the browser, a request is sent by your computer to iiNet’s web server(s). The server that receives your request then responds by sending the content to you which is eventually presented as a website on your computer.

The same steps are involved when you watch a video on Youtube or Netflix, listen to Music on Pandora or Spotify, play games online or when you download from iTunes, etc. Therefore Internet speed in essence is how quickly your request is sent to the server and how quickly all of the content will be delivered back to you. For this reason, Major ISPs like iiNet already partner with popular content providers (Google, Microsoft, Apple, ABC, Netflix etc) to collaborate and design their networks such that content is readily available and delivered faster between ISP and Server. This is known as a Content Delivery Network (CDN)

Read the rest here

http://blog.iinet.net.au/nbn-speeds-for-the-end-user/?dclid=CP-XjoKCktQCFZHSvAod...