No idea on either question, sorry.
You were doing so well NBNMyths until you started playing the man.
Just the facts M'aam .... just the facts.
Do you have a cost analysis available thus far? As in how much has been spent to date to get this coverage? 10 billion in CONTRACTS have been let. How much of this money has actually been spent to wind the shiny blue cable around Tasmania as per So_Cyclicals map??? How much did Armidale cost to bring on line?
Well assuming that there is 36 billion to be spent and there are 11 miilion or so of taxpayers in Australia to fund this shiny blue cable and it goes past 4000 homes in Tasmania ....... surely it is not that hard to do the maths??
It would be an average of course.
I would assume that the cost per premises in Tasmania (and the mainland trial sites for that matter)is substantially higher than what the final rollout will cost. It was a totally new experience for the contractors, using assorted machinery specially imported for the rollout to trial various methods of trenching and installation. There have also ben changes made to the hardware equipment, and contracts for volume supply which weren't in place for Tassie.
eg: A company I worked for purchased a fleet of 80 vehicles, with two prototypes from different manufacturers before deciding on one and going into production. The prototypes cost over 150% the price of the final production vehicles, and they weren't particularly complex....
I have often heard NBN staff referring to the rollout as a modular system. ie, that they aren't building a huge one-off network. They are building thousands of little, very similar networks. The thought being that once the process is developed and standardised, it gets cheaper and easier as time progresses.
They are building thousands of little, very similar networks. The thought being that once the process is developed and standardised, it gets cheaper and easier as time progresses
Some high density areas may not see the update you may think. Existing contracts and some may have cable. NBN's fibre may not give them access to anything new.
My comments about USA, Japan is more about how the coalition spruke their rhetoric about not done elsewhere. Many aspects of what NBN is planning to do is being deployed in other countries or has been deployed. Coalition need to be precise about some comments to add clarity. UK has having some deployments. NZ, USA is getting wireless expansion subsidised, Japan's subsidies (govt + telcos could come to an agreement) and so forth.
If Telstra could have found a way to find a suitable agreement and wanted it to happen then govt + Telstra would have much of it already deployed.
I'm a bit disappointed ACCC gave in to Telstra and Optus on POI. While Telstra and Optus would have had redundant invenstments - in time it could enable them to be decommissioned and reduce some costs. Less to maintain, operate etc.
So now the high density areas are already covered with enough internet speed? WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA? No significant improvement or access to anything new WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA?
Take the politics out of it boofehead. I am not interested in debating Libs/USA/Japan/NZ governmental controls as to whom is doing what to whom. I DON"T CARE !!!!!!!!!!! This is not political anymore. It is about DELIVERANCE of the greatest nation building exercise in our countries history. I want VALUE for my dollar and I damn well better get answers.
Agreed that Telstra has been a stumbling block. Waitaminute ! The Guvmint used to own this olygopoly and now it is curtailed by the dragon !! Bwhahahahhahahahhahahaaaaaaaaaa ...... so much for privatisation eh??
We had one of these previously .... it was called Telstra ...... they sold it ......... now they want to build a new one ........ anyone but me see the irony?? HUH ?? Well do ya???
The only saving grace, trainspotter, is the majority of the general public can see the absurdity of it. The next election is going to be memorable.
I'm starting to get the feeling that the timing of the NBN roll out is going to be near perfect with the CFC impacts rolling on and the need to boost employment and stimulate the non mining economy etc...i have a feeling that the NBN is going to go down in history as one of the greatest achievements of any Aust Govt.
Perhaps even Snowy scheme, MIA, Opera house status.
I Agree...the next election will be memorable because Labor will be returned with a slightly increased majority and the Coalition will be forced to abandon its extreme right wing agenda and make a realistic effort to engage the mainstream of Aust politics...1 Vote Tony will be a 2 time loser and replaced with Malcolm (inevitable) Turnbull.
By the way who do you think will be leading labor at the next election?
Doesn't matter really, who wants to re hash it, is the question.
So now the high density areas are already covered with enough internet speed? WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA? No significant improvement or access to anything new WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA?
“It may be possible for you to connect to the National Broadband Network using fibre optic technology, if you agree to pay NBN Co to extend the fibre optic network to your property,” wrote Flemming. “Over the coming months, NBN Co is performing a trial of the fibre optic network extension process with selected properties that border the Tasmania Second Release sites of Triabunna, Sorell, Deloraine, St Helens and South Hobart.”
How is it that you are hearing from NBN staff this closely? Do you want to stop the charade and come clean? I am more than happy for you to come out onto the flat and have an open discussion about this marvelous technology that is unfolding before us at taxpayers expense.
Hencewhy my stand is to ask WHY is it being rolled out in the high risk/cost/implematation/manpower/income etc in the first place????????
Well DUUUUUUHHHHHHHHHHHH .......... ya think??????? Would it not have been better to place it in a density area that the "networks" could have evolved??????? HELLO???
To say it went into Tassie FIRST to test the technology is a CROCK OF ****.
They don't get sat or wireless free. They get it at a standardised price, same for as the fibre connections where available.
Man, you are paranoid! There's nothing close about it. I've seen videos of several interviews with Quigley etc where he has referred to the network actually being lots of little networks. Unfortunately I can't find a link to one now. I'll keep looking and post it when I find one.
I don't know why Tassie in particular, but I can give some reasons why I think it hasn't specifically gone into cities first:
Technical reasons:
Cities currently have the best services and the most competition. Therefore the incremental benefit for many city people is less than for areas outside the cities. Personally, I think that areas with cable internet should be the last areas to have the NBN.
Following on from that, I doubt takeup will be any better in city areas than regional areas. Of the 5 mainland 1st release sites, the highest connection rates were in the regional sites of Armidale and Willunga (~90%), while the lowest takeup was in the city site of Brunswick (~60%).
If you're testing the rollout and operation of a network it's much easier to do the initial stuff in areas with lower density.
Political reasons:
There was an agreement with Oakeshott and Windsor to prioritise regional Australia in the rollout.
The NBN would be politically much harder to stop by a future Coalition govt if rolled out using an outside-in model. ie, lets say they did all the cities first, and by 2013 most of the metro areas were done, then the coalition got in to power. Pretty easy to stop it politically in that case. Cities have always had better services, so those outside the city would just have to put up with the inferior services and higher prices again.
BUT... If in 2013, you have 100 rural/regional centres and selected city suburbs that have fibre, and all can get speeds of 1Gbps for the same price, it makes it pretty hard for the coalition to say "we're stopping now and scaling back to 25Mbps fibre to the node" for the remaining areas, including big chunks of metropolitan Australia. Can you imagine trying to explain to voters that they can get 1000Mbps in Toowoomba, but only 25Mbps in Brisbane?
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