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That's kinda awkward
The last two weeks brownfields RFS rollout figures may be starting to reflect some bite from the above Scale-the-Deployment-Program document.It would help if journalists such as the above reconciled that leaked Scale-the-Deployment-Program document with other information publically available to understand it in context.
Firstly, the leaked report doesn't cover the full FTTN rollout and secondly, the targets in that report do not match publically made rollout forecasts. They are more aggressive suggesting a contingency between the two for issues that may (and obviously do) arise.
As for how things are actually going with the brownfields fixed line rollout relative to the corporate plan from last year, the weekly rollout updates will be the figures to watch.
In that, 1,580k brownfields are forecast to be ready for service (RFS) by June 30 this year. That consists of 1080k FTTP and 500k FTTN. As at March 3, that sits at 1,263k and thus needs to progress at an average rate of ~19k per week over the remaining 17 weeks to June 30 to meet the target. The average over the past 5 weeks has been ~33k.
Note in the above that NBN now include FTTB as a subset of FTTN.
A total of 27,878 additional lots/premises were passed/covered by the network during the week, of which 26,033 were in Brownfield and 1,561 were in Greenfield areas. Fixed wireless coverage increased by 284 premises During the week an additional 15,325 premises had services activated on the network, including 14,057 on fixed line services and 1,268 using satellite and fixed wireless technologies.
The second document is the NBN company’s regular ‘Ready for Service’ update, which the NBN company sends to retail ISPs so they know where their customers can buy NBN services, and when.
Telstra's recent 'free data day' provided some opportunity to see the result of increased traffic on mobile networks, indicating how they'd cope if everyone shifted to mobile as some people suggest will occur. And it was a nice piece of evidence to support the techies claims that mobile can't cope with a decent percentage of fixed-line data volumes.
The day resulted in Telstra users downloading 2848TB of data, which is about 3 times the usual volume.
It also resulted in numerous complaints from customers about unusably slow data due to congestion. Many customers couldn't even perform basic tasks like sending an iMessage or browsing Facebook because the network was too slow in populated areas.
Meanwhile, the fixed line network carries (on average) around 23000TB of data each day, which is increasing at the rate of 50% each year. By this time next year, average daily volume will be around 34000TB.
So the fastest 4G mobile network in Australia struggled with 1/7th of the current average daily fixed line usage.
All subsequently answered by NBN Co, thanks all.We're about to get the NBN rollout in my area. To those who've migrated to NBN, could I ask some dumb questions please?
-Does the chosen NBN plan include fixed line telephone rental?
-What happens with existing ADSL contracts, are they allowed as a $ credit on new NBN plans?
-Is the switch over to NBN instantaneous, i.e any internet connection down time?
-The cost of a base level 100GB NBN plan seems to be ~$75/mth..?
Grateful for any guidance on this.
We're about to get the NBN rollout in my area. To those who've migrated to NBN, could I ask some dumb questions please?
-Does the chosen NBN plan include fixed line telephone rental?
-What happens with existing ADSL contracts, are they allowed as a $ credit on new NBN plans?
-Is the switch over to NBN instantaneous, i.e any internet connection down time?
-The cost of a base level 100GB NBN plan seems to be ~$75/mth..?
Grateful for any guidance on this.
A total of 78,148 brownfields premises were passed and RFS over the 4 weeks from March 4 to March 31. 82,000 were scheduled to be passed over the month of March from the Excel spread sheet accessible from the link in the above post.https://delimiter.com.au/2016/04/04/new-leaked-docs-show-fttn-delays/
The above is part of an article about another leak and FTTN rollout delays.
The Excel table in the above RFS service update from the end of Feb is interesting in that it allows more detailed information on internal targets relative to publically published rollout targets. It confirms two things.
Firstly, the buffer between internally published and publically published targets in last year's corporate as noted in this thread and missed in media commentary.
Secondly, the magnitude of that buffer to June 30 as at the end of Feb. Despite the FTTN delays relative to internal targets, an addition of the columns reveals approximately 480k brownfield FTTP/FTTN premises are scheduled to be RFS over the 4 months from March to June. This compares to a requirement of approximately 320k over the same period to satisfy the June 30 2016 1580k FTTP/FTTN brownfields target as outlined in last year's corporate plan.
That equates to a buffer of approximately 160k.
iiNet founder and former chief executive Michael Malone has been appointed to the board of NBN Co.
Mr Malone will replace Adelaide internet entrepreneur Simon Hackett, who has resigned to focus fully on his role as executive chairman of Redflow Limited, a company in which he is also the biggest shareholder.
Federal Police raids Labor party offices in Melbourne over NBNCo leaks including that of Stephen Conroy according to the ABC.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-19/afp-raids-labor-party-offices-in-melbourne/7430346
No doubt the Labor Party will go all out to point the finger at who authorized the raids particularly during election time.
Federal Police raids Labor party offices in Melbourne over NBNCo leaks including that of Stephen Conroy according to the ABC.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-19/afp-raids-labor-party-offices-in-melbourne/7430346
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