21,000 faulty NBN connections claimed

[nero_bolt]

Another LABOR failure and botched policy....... 

One of an Abbott Government’s toughest jobs will be to clean up the NBN mess and stop the bleeding of our billions:

THE company building Labor’s $37.4 billion National Broadband Network could be forced to repair tens... after cutting corners in the construction processes to boost the number of homes passed by the massive infrastructure project.

The Australian can reveal that as of last week, connections to as many as 21,000 - one in eight - of the 163,500 existing homes and businesses passed by the fibre network were considered to contain defects in the network construction…

The defects mean that network connections to thousands of homes and businesses, which have been classified as “ready for service”, may require repairs before users can access the internet on the new network.

NBN Co last night disputed the figures, admitting there were significant defects but insisting the total number was lower than the [NBN internal] figures obtained by The Australian.

[poddster]

What original question? And when was it asked?

[lakeland27]

the savings in medicine alone are potentially huge. a specialist being able to see and oversee an operation 1000ks away in real time is a huge economic and social benefit. being able to monitor patients Live in real time in HD would save billions. its impact on health (Australia's largest annual spend) is potentially larger than the startup cost of NBN. two-way visual/audio from home to hospital delivered reliably is a benefit hard to refute.

[poddster]

And to do that what data transfer speed is needed?

[lakeland27]

with copper, it depends how far you are from the road. with fibre it doesn't. shielded copper drops its bundle after a short distance .. you cannot guide delicate surgery with reliability problems like that.

[para-sights]

They'll probably sell it off and privatise it anyway (only kidding lol)

[poddster]

The question was :-

What data connection would be needed,

[poddster]

And do you really think that delicate sugery will be guided remotely?

[lakeland27]

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@poddster wrote:

And do you really think that delicate sugery will be guided remotely?

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 it is already. with NBN it could become more prevalent and save more $$$' s  brilliant.

[para-sights]

They've done it with robots on humans and performed guidance surgery over the net. England have doctors doing rounds via internet video link (the video link/robot one does look a bit strange though)

[lakeland27]

and they can social network at the same time.