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.

[cherry*135]

Political propaganda.

[newstart2380]

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.

One is one to many me thinks but I wonder what they mean by "lower " 

[poddster]

20,999

[freakiness]

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@am*3 wrote:
Political propaganda.

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misleading beat up, especially the bit about 7000 dangerous connections.

[freakiness]

Last ditch attempt to smear NBN Co

http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/government-it/nbns-defects-not-a-concern-nbn-co-20130906-hv1pc.html

NBN Co has hit back at reports that up to 21,000 fibre connections installed by its contractors are defective, saying the figures are ‘‘grossly misrepresented’’ and give the false impression defects were ‘‘unique to NBN Co’’.

The unsourced story on the front of today’s Australian claimed up to 7000 major defects had been identified across the network, or about 4.2 per cent of total fibre connections completed. It also quoted anonymous sources saying the defects would require a costly clean up.

‘‘Even if the figure reported by The Australian was true, it would not be a concern. As it turns out the number has been grossly misrepresented," NBN Co’s chief operations officer, Ralph Steffens wrote in an internal memo.

"The actual number of defects is substantially lower than that reported by the newspaper.’’

Mr Steffens’ memo claims the ‘‘overwhelming majority of defects are minor and do not touch upon a family’s ability to receive broadband in the home’’.

Further, he said construction contractors would not receive final payment until major defects were rectified. However, he did not say whether defects would add to the cost of construction. Later an NBN Co spokesman said "the rectification of defects does not add to the cost of construction. The cost is borne by contractors."

Mr Steffen's memo also confirmed that neighbourhoods were now declared ready-for-service and available to internet service providers to connect before ‘‘all minor defects cleared’’, reversing an earlier process that would have delayed availability until minor defects were rectified. Minor defects include lawn on a nature strip not being replaced correctly, missing labels, cables needing to be recoiled and reinstating concrete to footpaths.

Major defects could include re-splicing, or reattaching, cables or moving aerial cables further away from power lines.  

[not_an_eloi]

comment i read elsewhere:

 "but at the end of the day we, under a NLP government, will proudly say we've put NBN in place and the rest of the word will laugh at us when they see how low our transfer speeds are.  It's like building a road that is 2 lanes in one stretch and 3 in another. You get bottlenecks, and eventually you have to put that 3rd lane in at the cost of billions, which would have only been millions if you'd done it right the first time."

[poddster]

Oile, for once I agree with you about bottlenecks. I have been saying over and over "That the data transfer speed of the internet is only as fast as the slowest link" that is in indisputable fact.

Everyone has been conned into believing that we are behind the world unless we have 100 Mbps, that is the biggest con ever that people swallow hook line and sinker.

As most of the content that people use comes from off shore 100Mbps is about as useful as mammaries on a bull.

Each connection to a web page traverses many 'hops' from provider to provider the number of "hops" can be as many as 20 or more.

The connection to the end source is limited by the speed of the slowest link, regardless of what your connection speed is.

Now comes reality as the Global average at the moment  is 14.46Mbps that is the top average speed that you  can hope for even if you are on 1Gbps connection.

If you have what you think is a fast connection check it oit for yourself here

http://speedtest.net

You can choose from thousands of servers all around the globe.

You can either believe the hype and BS that NBN is trying to feed you or you can inform yourself.

I really would like to see your results 🙂

[poddster]

By the way the longer the distance between source and destination the more "hops" there will be increasing the potentioal of further degradation in data transfer speed

[poddster]

Here is a graphic to illustrate a trace fron a source to destination the destination  is in Australia, but if it was off shore there would be more nodes.