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NBN Rollout Scrapped

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DB008 said:
Well, looking back to reflect on the Governments decision, and it was the right one.



l'm glad that they banned Huawei parts from the NBN. They should be kicked out of the country - all products, including NRL sponsorship too.
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and now 5g ....... pretty sure that most will be OK though, their stuff comes in boxes from hong kong that say Duawei. lol.

(sarcasm peeps - please do not tell me about ericsson et al, if you are going exclude chinese products from this market for reasons that are banned from discussion in a democracy, then the battle may be long and bloody - and bloody expensive - viva USSR)
 
With the advent of folding phones, with 7.5" screens 12Gig of RAM and 1TB of storage, expandable to 2TB with SD card.
Add to this 5G spectrum with NBN speeds, it won't be long before the only thing in the house, connected to the NBN will be the modem and the T.V.
The next thing that will be going out on the junk collection, will be the home computer box.

https://www.techradar.com/au/news/foldable-phones
 
At least labor isn't going to throw more taxpayer money, at the white elephant, the biggest waste of taxpayers money in history. IMO
The technology will be overtaken in the next few years, and all we will get out of it, is pay t.v instead of free to air t.v.
While the telco's will get the free to air band width, to charge us more for data.

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/fed...n-overhaul-in-new-policy-20190408-p51bzj.html

Next Labor will be using taxpayers money, to upgrade the electrical distribution system, so the electrical companies can charge us more for the extra electricity to charge our cars. :roflmao:
 
SpaceX launches first satellites in massive Starlink project to beam internet access from space

"Musk said six more launches of 60 satellites each will be necessary “for initial activation,” and 12 more to provide “significant coverage.”

In all, the Starlink project aims to eventually launch up to 12,000 satellites.
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Australian Govt. should just scrap the NBN. Gonna cost billions to fix it.
Let Musk do the whole lot for Oz including remote areas in 100 days. Musk lives and breathes when there are challenges.
Just like what he did for SA power backup.

Beam OZ up Musk.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/s...ss-from-space-2019-05-23?mod=mw_theo_homepage
 
I find it interesting Labor didn't use the NBN as a political big stick, at the last election, I wonder why? Because it is a bloody $50billion white elephant, from the last time Labor were in.
Thankfully the NBN cabinets in the street, can be used as 5G transmitters, for autonomous cars.
 
I wouldn't have been a white elephant if it was built correctly like it was originally planned. Funny how blinkered people get when their political bias starts to show.
All the knockers never seem to consider how the NBN has helped. Our business was stuck with extremely marginal 3G that virtually stopped after school finished on a week day. Absolutely no prospects of anything happening as we are semi rural but close to Brisbane. Big black hole. We now have NBN. We use cloud accounting, EDI for orders and numerous other applications. The improvemenst in productivity is immense (40 staff,5 in office) My daughter is about to get NBN and is in the same situation. No ADSL and non existent 3G/4G and she is in a developed urban area. She can now do work at home, where she had to stay late at the office when really busy in her job as group financial controller of listed company.
There was no incentive for telcos to fix these situations.
 
investtrader said:
I wouldn't have been a white elephant if it was built correctly like it was originally planned. Funny how blinkered people get when their political bias starts to show.
All the knockers never seem to consider how the NBN has helped. Our business was stuck with extremely marginal 3G that virtually stopped after school finished on a week day. Absolutely no prospects of anything happening as we are semi rural but close to Brisbane. Big black hole. We now have NBN. We use cloud accounting, EDI for orders and numerous other applications. The improvemenst in productivity is immense (40 staff,5 in office) My daughter is about to get NBN and is in the same situation. No ADSL and non existent 3G/4G and she is in a developed urban area. She can now do work at home, where she had to stay late at the office when really busy in her job as group financial controller of listed company.
There was no incentive for telcos to fix these situations.
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The biggest flaw with the NBN was the way they started with low income areas, instead of CBDs
 
SuperGlue said:
SpaceX launches first satellites in massive Starlink project to beam internet access from space

"Musk said six more launches of 60 satellites each will be necessary “for initial activation,” and 12 more to provide “significant coverage.”

In all, the Starlink project aims to eventually launch up to 12,000 satellites.
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Australian Govt. should just scrap the NBN. Gonna cost billions to fix it.
Let Musk do the whole lot for Oz including remote areas in 100 days. Musk lives and breathes when there are challenges.
Just like what he did for SA power backup.

Beam OZ up Musk.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/s...ss-from-space-2019-05-23?mod=mw_theo_homepage
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More Satellites!!!

It's already a timing issue for the space shuttle and others trying to navigate the ring.

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bellenuit said:
I'm still waiting for it in inner city Perth.
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Crazy isn't it, if it had started in the city where demand is massive we get a completely different result.

Set up for speed, sign up the big buck users and you have cash flow immediately to fund the ongoing installation.

Typical govt, doing things ass about. ( my son worked there for a while, crazy place)
 
sptrawler said:
The biggest flaw with the NBN was the way they started with low income areas, instead of CBDs
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Tasmania was selected as the first state for a three stage trial FTTP rollout.

A workmate's retired parents living in beautiful Scottsdale had NBN FTTP connected to the house but didn't sign up as they were computer illiterate and communication to the outside world was the good old Telstra landline and newspaper.
Apparently many in the same street didn't either for the same reason.

Here i am screaming for FTTP but got HFC with frequent dropouts and scrambled egg telephone conversation.
 
A question to those who have got NBN. From about two months ago, I have been receiving letters from ISPs asking if I want to pre-book them for when I get the NBN activated. Today I responded to a FaceBook ad from Aussie Broadband that allowed me to check the status of the NBN at my address and would also let me know what speed I could get. When I entered in my details, it said the NBN was already available and I would be able get up to 100Mbs. It said my connection would be HFC Hybrid (I have Foxtel cable installed). I then checked at the NBN site and it too confirmed that the NBN is available at my house.

Did those of you who are on the NBN receive any communication to say that it is available and you should apply for activation?
 
bellenuit said:
Did those of you who are on the NBN receive any communication to say that it is available and you should apply for activation?
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No, but on another issue I received a recorded message saying that my landline would be cut off because the NBN was available in my area. The fact is that it is not available to me as confirmed by the NBN salesperson on their help desk.

All I can get is mobile Broadband which fortunately is good enough for my purposes.
 
We were inundated prior to the connection but then it was just quietly turned on without any fanfare.

We had about 12 months to change over before they killed the old land lines.
 

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