NBN Co boss Bill Morrow has revealed fewer homes than expected might need to be connected to the National Broadband Network, with the reduction in the number of overall connections likely to have an impact on the company’s forecasts.
The company relies on geospatial databases to build its designs that allocate when and how the NBN is designed to a home or business. According to Mr Morrow, there’s a discernible difference in the number of homes that NBN Co expects to connect in any given area and how many there actually are.
“I think this is a database issue, in terms of the recordkeeping,” he said at a Senate Estimates Hearing on Thursday.
“We keep tweaking the numbers because it’s an estimate but it literally is hundreds of thousands less than what we had thought,” he said.
Mr Morrow said the lower number of premises could mean the cost of connecting homes to the copper-based fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) and fixed wireless footprints of the NBN edges up.
The cost of connecting a home to FTTN currently stands at around $2100.
The comments come as NBN Co puts the final touches on its next corporate plan, which is due in August.
NBN Co is currently expected to make 9.1 million homes and businesses ready to receive a NBN service by 2018, however, that number could likely be revised.
A NBN Co spokeswoman told The Australian the company expects any impact on cost and size to be minimal.
As the starter of this thread I should make a few comments.
I believe that Mr. Rudd and Senator Conroy to have been the two biggest dills ever involved in rolling out a communications platform to a nation, Australia, conceived, as many upper class nitwits, were on an Airline paper towel. I must admit to being a member of the mile high club.
Nonetheless we are still paying for it and Conroy and Rudd have moved on to greater things though I doubt if their contribution will ever appear kindly in the history books.
As a mere citizen it seems impossible to me that all of Australia could not be served by satellite technology. It is clean, requires little digging and covers a large amount.
Even if Rudd and Conroy, had the oomph to mile high, they could not have buggered up satellite technology. If they couldn't do it at a mile high, it would be well nigh impossible to do it in space.
So my question is.
Why don't we have it now. Digging trenches is so old world.
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It could have been worse.I believe that Mr. Rudd and Senator Conroy to have been the two biggest dills ever involved in rolling out a communications platform to a nation, Australia, conceived, as many upper class nitwits, were on an Airline paper towel. I must admit to being a member of the mile high club.
Nonetheless we are still paying for it and Conroy and Rudd have moved on to greater things though I doubt if their contribution will ever appear kindly in the history books.
Your spot on, not enough bandwidth to support the unemployed/underemployed, gaming 24/7.Sky Muster maxes out at 25megs which is not going to be enough bandwidth for future applications
Your spot on, not enough bandwidth to support the unemployed/underemployed, gaming 24/7.
You're a bit late to that debate but there is over 200 pages in this thread since it was started in 2011, many of which are dedicated to the relative merit between the current government's rollout and the former Labor government's rollout.NBN coming to my current home ....only FTTN available ..... wot's the point of even trying to compare the original idea with the current one. Old copper bell cable lines FFS .
NBN coming to my current home ....only FTTN available ..... wot's the point of even trying to compare the original idea with the current one. Old copper bell cable lines FFS .
Well that's pretty good, I have finally talked a mate into connecting in Mandurah W.A, it was one of the first roll outs.
Well he was rather circumspect, because he had taken days off work in the early days to get a connection, it didn't happen.
Well he fell off his motorbike and broke his leg, so thought great opportunity to connect, what a hoot no signal at the node.
Before anyone jumps in, it is fibre to the house.
Absolute Labor FFF up0.IMO
Well that's pretty good, I have finally talked a mate into connecting in Mandurah W.A, it was one of the first roll outs.
Well he was rather circumspect, because he had taken days off work in the early days to get a connection, it didn't happen.
Well he fell off his motorbike and broke his leg, so thought great opportunity to connect, what a hoot no signal at the node.
Before anyone jumps in, it is fibre to the house.
Absolute Labor FFF up0.IMO
Had friends from Cairns down for the long weekend. Rather despondently they let it be know how impressed they were with my 20meg ADSl connection compared to their $100/month NBN connection which slows down from walk to crawl at night as fellow neighbours settle into cyberspace. If only they had a choice of rollback.
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