More evidence that most don't give a rats ar$e about it.
http://www.theage.com.au/it-pro/nbn-connections-available-but-take-up-slow-20131205-hv4kg.html
More evidence that most don't give a rats ar$e about it.
http://www.theage.com.au/it-pro/nbn-connections-available-but-take-up-slow-20131205-hv4kg.html
Considering a lot of internet customers are on 2 year contracts you might have to wait 12 months from active promotion of NBN in a particular area before you start to see people being able to sign up for an NBN plan.
The take up rates in the early areas seem to have been quite high. My parents were in the first release of Kiama Downs / Minnamurra and the take up rate is well over 50% now. Wilunga has a similar profile. The avg is around a third of premises in each live NBN that's been active for at least 12 months. Seems a reasonable rate of consciously choosing to get onto the NBN.
Even at a 50% uptake it shows that the general public aren't breaking their necks to get it on.
You can talk it up as much as you like, however most will only put it on if it is cost neutral and or there is no alternative, i.e greenfield sites.
If the general population were desperate to get the NBN, they would pay for the connection. But as can be seen by the takeup, the majority aren't putting it on even when it is a free connection.
Meanwhile we scratch around to find money for health, education and infrastructure.
Even at a 50% uptake it shows that the general public aren't breaking their necks to get it on.
You can talk it up as much as you like, however most will only put it on if it is cost neutral and or there is no alternative, i.e greenfield sites.
If the general population were desperate to get the NBN, they would pay for the connection. But as can be seen by the takeup, the majority aren't putting it on even when it is a free connection.
Meanwhile we scratch around to find money for health, education and infrastructure.
The takeup of the NBN is higher than any similar project worldwide, including the takeup of the internet (dialup), ADSL and cable broadband. It's faster than the take-up of iPods, smart phones, 3G broadband, 4G broadband.
Like absolutely every technology, the takeup of the NBN follows the standard bell curve, and it's currently well ahead of that curve.
So I'm not sure how you think that story is evidence of any sort of NBN failure. There is nothing in the history of industry that has enjoyed instant take-up, from the automobile to the computer. There is always a curve.
I'm curious..... If you'd been the boss of Telstra spending a few billion rolling out ADSL nationwide in the early 2000's, would you have continued the rollout upon being told that less than 2% of eligible customers had taken up a service after 12 months? Because that's what the takeup was back then. Makes the NBN look rather spectacular by comparison. Yet where would we be today if the Telstra people hadn't understood the adoption curve?
The test of the NBN will be the takeup in ~10 years. And just like the internet, broadband and smart phones, I suspect that you'll be wondering in 10 years time how you ever did without 50Mbps+ broadband speeds.
speedtest.net said:Internet metrics company, Ookla, has ranked Australia 48th for download speed and 96th for upload speed in its most recent Net Index which covers tests recorded on Speedtest.net from June 3, 2011, to December 2, 2013.
Based on the tests, the average Australian download speed is 14.36 megabits per second (Mbps), equivalent to 1.795 megabytes per second (MBps). This places Australia on par with Slovenia and the Isle of Man.
That's what you get from 6 years of Labor in office.Pathetic.
That's what you get from 6 years of Labor in office.
As much as you would like to, you can't blame the Howard government for the problems Labor had in office. They covered the full spectrum, from warped ideology, broad scale policy failure and of course the internal problems within the party itself that led to two leadership changes while on office.Seriously a decade of Howard's nothingness...and you know it, like everyone knows it...a decade of dithering followed by 6 years of Labor catchup that led to an over reach.
Seriously a decade of Howard's nothingness...and you know it, like everyone knows it...a decade of dithering followed by 6 years of Labor catchup that led to an over reach.
A total of 8270 additional lots/premises were passed/covered by the network during the week, of which 5278 were in Brownfield and 860 were in Greenfield areas. Fixed wireless coverage increased by 2132 premises. During the week an additional 2887 premises had services activated on the network, including 2147 on fixed line services and 740 using satellite and fixed wireless technologies.
For comparison with above figures, that 20% would represent 542,200 premises.Malcolm Turnbull has advised in Parliament today that the strategic review will be released next week. He also advised that the fibre rollout by June 30 2014 will be approximately 20% of that forecast in the 2010 corporate plan.
The 2010 Corporate plan forecast a total 2,711,000 premises passed with fibre by the above date.
For comparison with above figures, that 20% would represent 542,200 premises.
In its FTTN plan earlier this year, the Coalition forecast 565,000 brownfields and 134,000 greenfields passed by June 30 2014 so the outcome looks like being even worse than that forecast.
As much as you would like to, you can't blame the Howard government for the problems Labor had in office. They covered the full spectrum, from warped ideology, broad scale policy failure and of course the internal problems within the party itself that led to two leadership changes while on office.
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