NBN Co's take-up rates soar

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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.

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FN, POD has a reasonable grasp of the NBN debate, political and the science, and is allowed to comment what, where, and when he wishes to so do.

John, if Pod has a reasonable grasp of the NBN debate he would not have to resort to attacks on me or trolling me around the boards.

He can keep his name calling and insults to himself.

The numbers a take up rates of the various FSAMs as they come online.  Not everyone can be connected overnight.  What has one FDH in one FSAM got to do with the whole of Hobart?

As you know Hobart roll out has just started. The point of the article was to explain where they are ramping up the roll out.

As I've said before they start the rollout at the POI (point of interconnect) they fan out from those. Before connecting to areas all the infrastructure that is required for the FSAM is built. After the first section is completed the next stages are rolled out more rapidly as the infrastructure is in place. In the first areas they are ramping up now and the take up numbers are increasing rapidly.  There is no shortage of people waiting to connect. In some areas there is a 6 week wait to connect because there are so many ordering services.

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9CRC-06 Crace 1600 15.9% 254 35.9% 574

9CRC-03 Crace 2500 13.9% 348 24.2% 605

The 2 FSAMs in Crace are not suffering form any perceived shortage of clients, especially as services have only been available for a few months.

In some areas the takeup numbers are also held back due to MDU connection only starting recently. 

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The Census population of Greater Hobart in 2011 was 211,674, living in 94,440 dwellings with an average household size of 2.38.

The census data has no relationship with the FSAM data.  Hobart has more than one FSAM. There are others (6 or 8 from memory) due to come online this year.

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Let’s say that there will be 10,000,000 connections at completion and let’s take a conservative cost at $40,000,000,000. Even if we disregard the interest that is being paid on the loan it would cost $4,000 per connection.

Remembering that neither interest nor ongoing maintenance has been added to the equation.

Does anyone think that the NBN would have been embraced had even those basic figures been made known?

That is the cost aspect.

Now let’s consider the benefit aspect. Of those 10,000,000 connections the vast majority of users would have better sense than to upload to the "cloud" their important data when they can store it locally for around $100 per tera byte

That is like 200,000 high resolution photos or 2000 DVDs

I too have Skype that I use of my telephony, vision as well as audio and it works just fine with a connection bit rate of 1Mbps.

Another aspect,

Do not be fooled by the promise of very high speed.

As we all know that the internet transfer rate is only as fast as the slowest link. As most off shore content originates off shore you will be limited to the internet link speed and the originating server speed.

The global average internet transfer speed at the moment is 13,55Mbps so uploading to the cloud would be limited to around that data transfer rate regardless of your ultra-fast connection speed. To upload your 1Tb of data at that rate it would take 20 hours and 31 minutes. To store 1Tb locally to would take around 27 minutes over a COPPER local area network cable.

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Banging your head on a brick wall would have the same result.

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Do not be fooled by the promise of very high speed.

To those already with a NBN service it is not a promise it is reality.. they have a very high speed compared to previous options.

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Why are people (individuals and businesses) who already have the NBN connection exceptionally pleased with it then poddster? 

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John, if Pod has a reasonable grasp of the NBN debate he would not have to resort to attacks on me or trolling me around the boards.

He can keep his name calling and insults to himself.

May I suggest that you show even one instance where I have done that?

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Do not be fooled by the promise of very high speed.

To those already with a NBN service it is not a promise it is reality.. they have a very high speed compared to previous options.

I am not disputing that if a person has signed up for 100mbps theu dont have the potential of 100mbps.

You have misunderstood what I have said so I will spell it out for you.

As we all know that the internet transfer rate is only as fast as the slowest link. As most off shore content originates off shore you will be limited to the internet link speed and the originating server speed.

The global average internet transfer speed at the moment is 13,55Mbps so uploading to the cloud would be limited to around that data transfer rate regardless of your ultra-fast connection speed. To upload your 1Tb of data at that rate it would take 20 hours and 31 minutes. To store 1Tb locally to would take around 27 minutes over a COPPER local area network cable.

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Whatever... fact remains those( individuals,families, businesses) who in real life (not just paper figures) who do have a NBN connection are very pleased with it.