NBN plan
 

Hi all,

With the Liberals getting elected last weekend, the existing plan for the NBN (fibre-to-home) will soon be scrapped in favour of the cheaper (albeit crappier) fibre-to-node network.

An online petition has been started to submit to the new government, to keep the fibre-to-home network.

This petition has now grown to be the largest online petition in Australia's history, with a new person signing every 3.5 seconds.
[url=http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/2013/09/11/12/08/one-name-every-3-5-sec-on-nbn-petition]One name every 3.5 sec on NBN petition[/url]


Support the petition here:[url]http://chn.ge/1cYOhqR[/url]



Feedback and comments are welcome in this thread...

Have found these articles are the most relevant as support arguments to the existing FTTH rollout.

[url=http://nbnmyths.wordpress.com/why-not-fttn/]Why not FTTN? | NBN MYTHS[/url]

[url]http://theconversation.com/can-australia-afford-the-coalitions-nbn-17494[/url]

[url]https://theconversation.com/labor-and-coalition-broadband-policies-whats-the-difference-16165[/url]

We should just take a seat & wait to see what the new plans are. He has said FTTH is the plan but there are a number of DSL technologies being developed to match the speed of fibre over the last few hundred meters. Alot of misleading information going around.

Honestly think they will crumble & end up doing FTTP.

Just because Labors plan is better than the Libs, doesn't mean that Labors is any good.

IMO it should be done properly:
[url=http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/1112823701/sony-launches-ultra-fast-internet-japan-041613/]Sony Launches Ultra-Fast Fiber Internet In Japan - Technology News - redOrbit[/url]

Sad truth is it's all obsolete once it's installed. Something is better than nothing.

My view is that the FTTN plan will be cheaper in short term (next 5-10 years), but more expensive in the long term (over 10 years).

Why spend billions to still use an obsolete network of copper wire?

Massive cost overrun, only 2% rolled out in 5 years. The problem is that in its current design the NBN is the largest single civil construction project ever attempted in this country by a long ways. It was not costed or planned properly and no business plan produced prior to launching into it. [url=http://www.smh.com.au/business/coalition-to-take-axe-to-nbn-co-20130910-2ti9y.html]Coalition to take axe to NBN Co[/url]

Short term? 5-10 years?
Fuck me, they haven't even started building it in Safety Bay so we're AT LEAST 13 years away!

Can't even get ADSL2 due to multiplexing at the nodes.

[QUOTE=American Dave;770742]Massive cost overrun, only 2% rolled out in 5 years. The problem is that in its current design the NBN is the largest single civil construction project ever attempted in this country by a long ways. It was not costed or planned properly and no business plan produced prior to launching into it. [URL="http://www.smh.com.au/business/coalition-to-take-axe-to-nbn-co-20130910-2ti9y.html"]Coalition to take axe to NBN Co[/URL][/QUOTE]

the "not costed" bit can be applied to the coalition's plan as well:rolleyes:.
Looking at it the other way, the Coalition wants to implement a plan that will cost at least 2/3 of the original plan (I am just using the numbers they put forth) with at most 1/10th of the speed (assuming you live on top of a node), cost more to maintain, unreliable when it rains, incompatible with future upgardes and guaranteed to be obsolete in ten years.

I would settle for better mobile coverage as the current level is appauling