The NBN is getting like the pink batts scandal.
A mate lives in Mundingburra, a Townsville suburb full of ABC listeners and Labor luvvies. With the recent storms and weather they lost power. They said to themselves at least we still have the internet, as we are on the NBN, being first movers for the privilege and good ALP voters.
Problem was the NBN wires are not underground, they go with the power and were knocked out with the power.
Mate said, he would be fine as the NBN spruiker assured him the battery would last for days.
The battery carked it after 11 hours.
What a joke. He now has no internet.
All those promises, and all that infrastructure, and they put it overground in a cyclone/storm area.
My mate is now going to vote for the Katter Party. He had a fair few knocks at footy as a kid, but I am told is a good financial planner. He cannot now contact his clients, which may or may not advantage them.
gg
Oh gg, you really don't understand much about the whole project, do you?
About 75% of the NBN will be underground and 25% overhead. Basically, wherever the Telstra lines are overhead, the NBN will be too. Wherever Telstra lines are underground, that's where the NBN will be. The Townsville trial site is the overhead trial site and was constructed before the NBN got access to Telstra's underground duct network.
It's not that the NBN wires in Townville were "knocked out", it's that the power was knocked out. This should be obvious since the NBN was
"working for 11 hours". Since fibre doesn't carry power, any fibre network needs power at both ends, hence the supply of the NBN backup battery. The battery has always been advertised as lasting for 4-5 hours (so 11 hours is quite spectacular), and it has never been advertised as "lasting for days". I should also point out that the backup battery only provides power to the NBN voice port, not the data ports. Either way, whether the lines were above or below ground in this case is a moot point.
All that aside, there is no network that works without power. While the current copper network works for phone calls without power (as the backup batteries are located at the exchange), it doesn't work for internet since both ADSL and dialup modems require power to operate. Mobile broadband requires backup batteries at the tower which only last for a few hours, and of course the user dongle requires power from the laptop it's plugged in to. The coalition's FTTN proposal requires power at the street cabinet located about 500m apart along every street, and at the house to power the VDSL modem.
Perhaps you'd like to tell everyone about the power-less alternative which you advocate?
Oh, and does your mate realise that Katter is one of the strongest supporters of the NBN?
I would suggest mate, that the NBN spend is a total waste of money.
If the ALP leaning, upper class of Mundingburra are dissatisfied with the NBN, the NBN is in strife.
And big strife, mate.
It does not deliver, is the message. It does not deliver.
It is an Ex-Parrot.
gg
It's popularity is only growing. Sorry gg that your prophecies from this thread continue to be proven laughably inaccurate:
People are actually moving to Kiama and Willunga just to get the NBN. Hitting 26 and 29% takeup respectively after 5 months,it is dwarfing ADSL which only hit 3% after 18 months when it first became available.
http://southern-times-messenger.whereilive.com.au/news/story/nbn-brings-people-to-willunga/
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2012/s3454550.htm