Senator Lundy briefly discusses the announcement of the NBN expansion of the fibre to the premises 100 Mbps network from 90% of the population to 93%.
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Yesterday the Federal Labor Party announced the National Broadband Network would be going further than the 90% fibre to the premises.
They’ve now followed the advice of the implementation study and they’re going to extend the National Broadband Network fibre to the premises to 93% of the population.
This is fantastic news for Canberra.
It means that places like Hall are going to be on those maps for fibre to the home.
It also means that the remaining 7% will receive 12 megabits per second, which is 10 or 20 times the bandwidth than they’re currently receiving.
So regardless of where you are in Australia, 93% will get the 100 Mbps fibre to the premises, the remaining 7% – through a combination of terrestrial wireless and satellite will get 12Mbps.
These speeds outstrip anything that people are able to access at the moment. Particularly in outlying areas and RIM affected areas in cities like Canberra.
So can I say how proud I am of this policy.
I think it’s great news for everyone here in Canberra, and I’m getting a wonderful response to the National Broadband Network moving into Gungahlin as part of the first nineteen rollout sites, and I’m just really proud to be here to talk about the policy with voters because they know how much of a difference it’s going to make.
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A $43 billion nbn delivering lightning fast broadband to my door won’t be of any use to me unless I upgrade all my technology beyond the door. That would represent a substantial hit to my family’s budget. To be honest, I wouldn’t care if the nbn is canned and the money diverted to other, more needy projects.
Like investing in real “climate change” science, for example. And not the “myths” being peddled at the moment about how mankind is warming the planet. Given that we do not control that ball of light in the sky, it shouldn’t be to hard a myth to disprove. Just ask the 17,500 scientists who signed the petition that debunks the current myth…..
The chances of your motherboard having a 100BASE-TX network port on it is extremely high. The chances your hard drives are fast enough to both read and write data at more then 100Mbps is also extremely high… unless your computer is like more than a decade old.
No no lies ;p
Don’t get me wrong, if you’d prefer the money be spent elsewhere, fine, i respect your opinion, but please don’t try and shroud it what i’m pretty damn sure are misinformation.
…and please excuse my typo’s
than* not then
is* not and
Well I take it all back. Labor today has announced a 1 Gigabit NBN. IF that is in fact the case, many computers from yesteryear won’t have the network throughput to make good use of it.
1Gb connection is commendable nonetheless, WAY more future-proofed.
Kevin, your existing equipment is not the bottleneck, but your current connection speed. If you are the median ADSL2+ customer, this is about 6 Mbps, because the speed drops so rapidly over copper.
Your new fibre box will have one network port and one phone socket, which are always on whilever there is power to the telephone exchange, i.e. always.
Simply plug your existing router or single computer into the port, and your phone into the phone socket, and stop worrying about two people trying to use the internet at the same time.
You will also save the cost of your phone line rental and local and national STD landline calls, so the cost of fibre broadband works out cheaper than your combined bill now.
Thanks for the update.
And no, there ain’t no lies/misinformation in me … I’m no techo, so I don’t know what lies beyond my pc’s on/off switch, apart from what someone told me a few years back about the speeed into the pc is not as important as the speed at which the data can be processed. He likened it to a 6-lane highway funnelling into a single laned round-about.
Still, when I think about the way I use the internet, I’m not sure that I’d get any real benefit from the nbn, no matter what my motherboard (do I also have a fatherboard???) has on it.
And given that – according to Minister Conroy yesterday – it’s taken 18 months to roll out just over 1200km of cable in Tasmania – I think it may take a while to get the cable to my door anyway.
I wonder – when the last house has been “connected” to the nbn, whether the technology would be as dated as my dodo dial-up account?
So Kate, hi, wassup, how ya been?
Great news about further expansion of the NBN.
Got any inside info to leak on Labor’s internal stance on the content filter? Now that it’s doomed anyway are you guys gonna pull it off the table so those few thousand people who are voting against you purely because it would probably then change their minds? ^^
Anything that filters porn has my vote.
And I would suggest that would be the view of thousands of “real men”. Cos real men don’t do porn
Most porn isn’t RC, so it’s not going to filter porn.
So I assume it doesn’t have you vote then?
I have just read, and thoroughly recommend, Paul Fletcher’s Wired Brown Land. This sets out in convenient form the long history and opportunity cost of Telstra’s pretence at acting in the national interest while acting consistently in its own. Instead of shopping centre stunts and debates about debates, we should have been discussing Telstra’s structural separation. But the caravan has moved on.
The more I read, the more I compared the apparent ease with which our forefathers committed to “risky” investments in rail, roads, Snowy Mountains Scheme, telephone and telegraph services and even the ABC with far less tortuous debate than has been our experience with communications. It seems to me, in those cases, the common thread was far less emphasis on trying to justify a financial return from the immediate users and to think instead of a bigger picture vision for the benefits to the rest of the country. For example, would expected freight revenue from wheat farmers alone would have justified country rail? Closer to a communications experience, who would like to see the demise of, or failure to establish, the ABC because the only revenue it generates is through its shops? And who says government can NEVER deliver? Again think ABC, Qantas, Commonwealth Bank, Snowy Mountains Authority, justice system etc.
How was it possible to justify building a copper telephone network when hardly anyone had or could see a use for telephones until nearly everyone had one? Yet today there are inn million internet subscribers and even more telephone subscribers.
So here is a radical thought. The government builds the NBN and any RSP with the technical ability to deliver services is allowed to access it for nothing. Through reduced barriers to entry, competition will permit lower prices for the services RSPs deliver. That becomes the advantage to the nation which has built the network. After all in eight years’ time (and even now with phone services in every home) everyone is a potential user just as everyone is a potential consumer of ABC content.
Clearly the nation’s finances and prospects are now in far better shape than was the case when the visionary projects were undertaken. I am normally against hypothecating specified taxes to specific services, but if it is necessary politically to find a way to justify this apparently outlandish idea, why not a tax or royalty on the extraction of any non-renewable resource as a way of converting that depleting resource to one which will keep on giving to the nation.