NBN Rollout Scrapped

[JohnDe]

A lot of Australian grey nomads will sign up for this, internet and phone on the go, this is where personal connectivity is destined to boom.
No matter where you are in the world, you can email or call home.

Starlink Offers Cheapest Plan Yet to Entice Inactive Users

SpaceX invites users in Australia to pay about $9 per month but caps the data to 5GB.

au.pcmag.com

Yes, and it makes you wonder why the Albanese Labor government is going to spend a fortune on fibre when the world is moving on.

Labor has promised $3 billion to upgrade hundreds of thousands of NBN connections and speed up internet services.​

Labor to 'finish' NBN by upgrading FTN to fibre, PM says in election promise

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese promises a $3 billion injection to "finish" the National Broadband Network and speed up internet services, as Labor and the Coalition swing into election campaign mode.

www.abc.net.au

 

[sptrawler]

Yes, and it makes you wonder why the Albanese Labor government is going to spend a fortune on fibre when the world is moving on.

Labor has promised $3 billion to upgrade hundreds of thousands of NBN connections and speed up internet services.​

Labor to 'finish' NBN by upgrading FTN to fibre, PM says in election promise

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese promises a $3 billion injection to "finish" the National Broadband Network and speed up internet services, as Labor and the Coalition swing into election campaign mode.

www.abc.net.au

Well the fibre to the house, will unlock the inherent limitation on the media, so they will be able able to get the bandwidth to charge for everything you watch. Lol
Instead of having to hear tge monotonous "live and free", you will be able to watch the "pay to watch" logo.

The really funny part is, the Govt last year let off the telcos having to pay $30billion contribution to the installation, now the taxpayer stumps up another $3.8billion to put more nails in their free to air tv access.

None so blind as those who refuse to see, or those who are so rusted on they may as well be missionaries, that position would suit them IMO.

 

[mullokintyre]

Yes, and it makes you wonder why the Albanese Labor government is going to spend a fortune on fibre when the world is moving on.

Labor has promised $3 billion to upgrade hundreds of thousands of NBN connections and speed up internet services.​

Labor to 'finish' NBN by upgrading FTN to fibre, PM says in election promise

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese promises a $3 billion injection to "finish" the National Broadband Network and speed up internet services, as Labor and the Coalition swing into election campaign mode.

www.abc.net.au

the world was moving on when NBN was announced.
Telsta was always going to head down the wireless path, and the needed a way to get out of the aeing and maintenance intensive copper network and pits.
Telstra laughed all the way to the bank when Turnbull flogged off the ageing copper network and pits for $11billion back in 2014.
Part of the deal original 2011 deal that Rudd set up was for Telstra not to spruik its wireless network as an alternative to the NBN for a number of years., a tacit agreement that if market forces were to prevail, the emerging wireless would become a bigger competitor to the NBN fixed fibre network.
It is a classic Government inability to understand potential changes to the direction of the world in the future.
Byt he time the bureaucracy has moved at its traditional snail pace on a planned large scale long term tech project, the world has moved in.
Mick

 

[IFocus]

95% of data still goes down cable.

 

[sptrawler]

95% of data still goes down cable.

Business data always will go down a cable, private residential consumers want the flexibility to have one plan that travels with them, well intelligent ones do.
How long has Starlink being going?

SpaceX Teases 1Tbps of Download Bandwidth on V3 Starlink Satellites

The V3 Starlink satellites will be deployed via SpaceX's upcoming Starship vehicle.

au.pcmag.com

Now Amazon want to launch low orbit internet satellites, to compete with Starlink.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/06/world/amazon-kuiper-internet-satellites-spacex-starlink-scn/index.html

it wont be long before all in one internet/phone plans become available with world wide coverage, then it will be interesting to see how residential NBN fares.

Albo throwing another $3.8billion at residential NBN, is just tossing good money after bad IMO. But as long as the faithful are happy, that's the main thing I suppose.

 

[IFocus]

Business data always will go down a cable, private residential consumers want the flexibility to have one plan that travels with them, well intelligent ones do.
How long has Starlink being going?

SpaceX Teases 1Tbps of Download Bandwidth on V3 Starlink Satellites

The V3 Starlink satellites will be deployed via SpaceX's upcoming Starship vehicle.

au.pcmag.com

Now Amazon want to launch low orbit internet satellites, to compete with Starlink.

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/10/06/world/amazon-kuiper-internet-satellites-spacex-starlink-scn/index.html

it wont be long before all in one internet/phone plans become available with world wide coverage, then it will be interesting to see how residential NBN fares.

Albo throwing another $3.8billion at residential NBN, is just tossing good money after bad IMO. But as long as the faithful are happy, that's the main thing I suppose.

The data load private users chew out rises every year and is significant regardless whether its wireless, 5g, star link or what ever it all ends up in a cable.

The only reason people can use other services like above is because NBN does all the heavy lifting plus its not affected by weather to the same degree other services are.

 

[sptrawler]

The data load private users chew out rises every year and is significant regardless whether its wireless, 5g, star link or what ever it all ends up in a cable.

The only reason people can use other services like above is because NBN does all the heavy lifting plus its not affected by weather to the same degree other services are.

We still shouldn't be throwing more money at it, the telcos and media are the ones who benefit financially, they should be stumping up the money, as was the original intention.
All that will happen is less content will be free, anything worth watching will be pay to view, then those that don't have the internet get nothing, yet they will have contributed through their taxes.
Meanwhile the telcos and the media can charge the taxpayer, for what they were receiving for free and the taxpayer funded it.