The problems with the NBN come back to government policy; as soon as the LNP came in they canned Labor’s standardised fibre to the premises design & pushed their dodgy (slower, less reliable) node policy. So much money was wasted by that change, now they’re having to replace that rubbish with fibre which could’ve been done already.
Compared to that, some Lego workshops are nothing.
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PM Abbott and Comms Minister Turnbull’s faster, cheaper, with no compromise to speeds plan that was not built faster, not cheaper and significantly slower than the original NBN. And they’re still going back to fix their idiotic FTTN plan.
Labor’s original full-fibre NBN would’ve definitely gone over budget and taken much longer, but at least it would’ve been fully finished and future-proofed once it was built.
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Definitely. And so has this version. Over $60 billion spent now, when they originally estimated $29 billion. Bloody massive waste of taxpayers money and somehow this fact seems to be constantly overlooked.
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Probably now pales into comparison with the $200 billion plus spent on COVID.
Any big project almost certainly goes over budget, there are always unexpected issues that come up, and the NBN was one of the countries biggest projects.
At least FttP was future-proofed, and it would’ve been finished before the LNP’s current replacement of FttN with FttK (fibre to the kerb), and with less waste (all that money spent on nodes and new copper wiring has been wasted).
It’s bizarre that people think LNP/conservatives are somehow better money managers with all the evidence showing the exact opposite.
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That is why all projects these days have contingencies built-in. It is obscene governments both labor and liberal continue to doll money out like it is a free tree.
They pretty much deliberately get under costed to make it get the green light, and pretty much hold whoever is in power to ransom to fund any overs so it doesn’t end up being unfinished and being useless.
Similarly, departments will over cost something they don’t want to make the government go away.
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Optus and TPG will pay back $4.4 million and $2.1 million, respectively, to tens of thousands of consumers who were not advised about the maximum speeds advertised in their internet plan were not attainable on the NBN infrastructure available to them.
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Waste of Money… people already have the taste of poo with NBN fixed wireless… most are moving to star link which is very good !
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Clearly the point of these upgrades. Give Starlink a run for its money.
If they can give a stable 250mb connection via Fixed Wireless for less than Starlink costs, it’s a win.
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and not all people on fixed wireless can afford starlink
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Even a stable 50mb connection would be more than sufficient for 99% of people.
Fixed wireless is a very good technology, even in use by several business and enterprise grade ISPs throughout the city to provide services where fixed line can’t (or can’t get high enough speeds for a reasonable price) with outstanding results. NBN’s problem at the moment is that the wireless backhaul capacity is insufficient as it was designed in a time before streaming and uptake was higher than expected. Ideally these backhaul links would have been upgraded as they approached capacity, but clearly the funding wasn’t there until now.
Also to clarify, it’s not every FW customer who has experienced problems. Those closer to towns where the path back to a fibre connection was shorter haven’t had as many issues. The issues have been more focused around the more remote customers who are connected via several wireless links.
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Speaking alongside Finland’s Prime Minister Sanna Marin, as the pair announced a major upgrade that aims to boost internet speeds for 7 million Australians by 100 times, Rowland said the current government’s policy would future-proof the NBN.“I think by coming in, myself and Finance Minister [Katy] Gallagher as shareholder ministers, we have effectively undertaken a regulatory reset,” Rowland said.
Under the new model, NBN Co will charge telcos such as Telstra and Optus much lower wholesale prices, which have been a major point of contention between the telecommunications industry and the industry.The new deal between Nokia and NBN will deliver greater volumes of data to consumers at higher speeds. Nokia’s technology will see those on fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) networks, and people who join FTTP in future, be able to access multi-gigabit speeds. The NBN can currently only accommodate up to 1 gigabit per second, but the new Nokia infrastructure will increase this to up to 100 gigabits per second.
The regions eligible to connect to fibre broadband from 2024 will be announced by the federal government on Monday as part of Labor’s commitment to bolster the expansion of the National Broadband Network (NBN) with $2.4 billion in equity funding.
“Our investment in full-fibre NBN will see up to 90 per cent of premises in the fixed line footprint able to access world-class gigabit download speeds by 2025.”
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My suburb is scheduled to get gigabit internet next year.
Depending on the price, i will sign up for it, though in reality it won’t make much difference as i don’t do anything more bandwidth intensive than stream in 4K or the occasional Android system update.
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It’s well overdue that regional towns and outer suburbs of major cities get an upgrade so their internet speeds can catch up with the inner parts of capital cities.
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