NBN Co's take-up rates soar

[freakiness]

Last week was the most recent NBN progress update.

At the time the fact that the take-up rates were increasing rapidly was lost amongst the asbestos fallout.

Our take-up rates have been described as world leading, at recent industry forums.

A week later and I haven't seen it on the news.

This is good. With the advent of smart TVs at home and the growth in online activity in business, health and education we'd be crazy to stop it or change it now.

Malcolm wants to talk down about Mike Quigley but Mr Quigley has earned his position and earned our trust.  Any man who refuses performance bonuses and donates his entire first year salary to NeuroScience Australia deserves Australian of the year in my opinion.

Barnaby Joyce fair dinkum insulted him.  He did a very good Les Patterson impersonation.

Actually I was rather disappointed that there was so much trash politics talk and personal attacks.

At most of these events Quigley and his team get to talk more about the project, issues, what's going on and why. It's interesting and informative.

PLEASE NOTE: I have not mentioned Labor. This is about the National Broadband Network infrastructure project.  It's not a hate fest on LNP or their fans.

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/345123,nbn-cos-take-up-rates-soar.aspx/0

Analysis: Big numbers, big growth in just five weeks.

Take-up rates across NBN Co's fibre network are soaring, with many rollout areas adding hundreds of users over the past five weeks.

In a Budget Estimates dominated by asbestos and antagonism, NBN Co provided an updated dataset of completed fibre serving area modules (FSAMs) and the percentage take-up for connections in each.

As with the previous dataset that was released on April 19, iTnews has run the figures to show exactly what the percentage growth means in terms of number of premises.

The latest data shows significant growth of active users in fibre rollout areas from Kingston Beach, George Town and Hobart in Tasmania, to Coffs Harbour in NSW and Gungahlin in the ACT.

Between the April 19 and May 30 iterations of the dataset, NBN Co has seen growth of 4087 active connections in its top 22 FSAMs, a 34 percent increase.

On the link there are tables with the FSAM take-up rate break down.

[freakiness]

Wasn't there a call for the NBN to stop using estates on plans in their take up rate as the homes had not even been built yet? 

I'm not sure what you're asking.

I've never heard such a call and I've heard some strange ones.

If the home doesn't have a service it's not counted. If the estate is half built with a few connected those few will be counted as a percentage of the whole estate. The FSAM will be counted because it exists and is servicing properties.

[cherry*135]

Wasn't there a call for the NBN to stop using estates on plans in their take up rate as the homes had not even been built yet? 

Where did you get that from? You need to pay attention to details if you are going to post stuff like that.

[poddster]

It's only unreasonable to foolish people who expect they can build the entire transit network and POIs in no time.

The story is about how they are catching up and ramping up the rollout. Most people understand they don't have a magic wand to build the NBN overnight.

As you hate the NBN so much just butt out and leave the conversation for those who are interested.

I dont hate the NBN. What I disagree with is the constant hype and B/S that we are fed. No one expects to see anything by the "magic wand" process or the B/S method. What I have done is injected a bit of reality into the discussion.

It has take 3 years to get 12,020 take ups at that rate it will take 832 years to get 10,000,000 take ups even if you increase the tak up rate by a factor of 10 it will still take 83 years.

So spare us the B/S

[*mrgrizz*]

does anyone know

people who are now able to sign up for the NBN what are the plan comparisons like price wise?

if it is going to cost more, either money wise or reduced usage you would have to consider that.

what do you gain? a increase in speed.

so your page will load a little faster.

[just_me_karen]

What I have done is injected a bit of reality into the discussion.

:^O such as your claim that copper from the 19th century is suitable for 20th century communications? Or that copper is faster than fibre? :^O

[cherry*135]

does anyone know

people who are now able to sign up for the NBN what are the plan comparisons like price wise?

if it is going to cost more, either money wise or reduced usage you would have to consider that.

what do you gain? a increase in speed.

so your page will load a little faster.

We had an NBN connecttion  from Nov 2011- Nov 2012. NBN test area NSW.

Moved house to other side of town and NBN still a month or two from being completed so I can get NBN service again.

The options we had before NBN were woeful.We don't have ADSL2 or 2+ at our exhanges or if we do it is owned by Telstra) and other ISP's don't offer decent plans/rates in our area for that reason (We would be Telstra resale customers). Telstra is too expensive.

The ADSL speed we had was  very slow, hardly worthwhile trying to watch a short youtube clip.. lagging. take forever to watch a 1 -2 minute clip.

People in other areas nearby have unlimited broadband plans  (ADSL2 or 2+) or 100GB and we can hardly get 30GB for anywhere near the same monthly cost.

 With NBN service we paid $60 per month for Broadband and Landline (over the NBN VOIP) using exisitng phone. Landline ($15) is optional, we don't need one to get NBN service.

Plan was $120GB (some of that off peak)

Speed was 10 times faster than the  ADSL (not ADSL2 or 2+) we had before, that is without buying the extra NBN speed packs

Currently we have mobile broadband 12GB, congested slow etc for $40.00 p.m.

The ISP provided the  modem for  the NBN free and one of the techs installed it in the house. We were in a test area and they were keen to get people to sign up, so that option may not be available next time I sign up. I do still have the free modem though from last time.

People need to take into consideration that it is not just home owners getting the NBN, it is businesses, schools, hospitals, Govt depts, councils, libraries etc that are going to get a good advantage from it also.

We live 1.5 hours south of Sydney, there have been people moving here because of the NBN.. for example, a professional photographer who sells his digital photos to overseas magazines , moved here to have access to the NBN ( works from home and having a young family suits them to live in a small town.)

[freakiness]

does anyone know

people who are now able to sign up for the NBN what are the plan comparisons like price wise?

if it is going to cost more, either money wise or reduced usage you would have to consider that.

what do you gain? a increase in speed.

so your page will load a little faster.

The plans are the same cost, less in some areas. Some people choose to pay more to get more.

My 2 plans combined cost less for phone and net than my previous 1 BB plan costed. The data limit is 5x what I had (I have smallish plans).  Within a month my usage had increased from 10GB to 50GB.

The greatest gain is in the uploads.  All my photos, videos and documents instantly go to cloud storage to be shared across all my devices.  I don't need to burn to disks or save to USB memory devices to move it around or share it. I can stream video and communicate in high def any time I wish. 

For me it's not that pages load faster.  It's that video streams work as they should and it means I can communicate with clients via Skype with the required clarity. 

That is my personal experience I refer to, MrGrizz.

[freakiness]

I dont hate the NBN. What I disagree with is the constant hype and B/S that we are fed. No one expects to see anything by the "magic wand" process or the B/S method. What I have done is injected a bit of reality into the discussion.

It has take 3 years to get 12,020 take ups at that rate it will take 832 years to get 10,000,000 take ups even if you increase the tak up rate by a factor of 10 it will still take 83 years.

So spare us the B/S

No, you spare us.

You have been having your own private hate fest on NBN since you started sticking your beak into the NBN threads.

The comments about 83 years only proves you have not read the plans and have no idea what you're talking about.

If you want to be spared the BS it's easy, STOP POSTING IT!

[monman12]

"Take-up rates across NBN Co's fibre network are soaring"
It would be far more meaningful to supply actual overall figures, e.g. going from 1 to 2 is a 50% increase!

I wonder if offering a sign-up bounty of $108 (ending soon) to internet providers that shift customers to the  taxpayer-funded NBN fibre-based or wireless networks helped???

As LeMay has written:-

"Let’s not beat around the bush here. There is only one reason why NBN Co would want to kick off this kind of “promotional” offer to incentivise retail ISPs to sign up customers faster. The company obviously feels that take-up of its new network infrastructure is not going as fast as it could be, and it wants to accelerate adoption. I’m not sure to what extent NBN Co is doing this as a result of the political situation, but there is no doubt as to the overall intent of the offer."

Finally:
"with many rollout areas adding hundreds of users over the past five weeks.". Gosh!
Do you wish to do the maths FN, of how long, at that rate, it would take for the country to "sign-up"

[cherry*135]

I am also looking forward to getting the NBN at work. Currently we have a T plan for 12GB for $60p.m. ADSL.

Slower than a wet week.. waiting, waiting, waiting, for the CBA website in the afternoon to do online banking is painful...as are most other online tasks.