NBN Rollout

[pct001wine]

From now on monthly Ready for Service lists and other key details will only be  available via the NBN Co sales portal, which isn't open to the  public. Instead the government will issue a weekly progress report  indicating the overall number of premises passed, premises serviceable and  services activated. These national figures will not breakdown the rollout to  specific locations. The figures no longer include areas where construction has  "commenced", as Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull says they "do not  necessarily provide a meaningful indicator of progress".

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/computers/blogs/gadgets-on-the-go/nbn-co-rewrites-rollout-map--wi...

Seems a bit like the weekly reporting of boat arrivals.   Is this the hallmark of this new government - giving us the news they want us to have ?  Where's the transparency ?

[cherry*135]

I agree,suss.

[spotweldersfriend]

They've changed it to opaque.

[***super_nova***]

Tony Abbott has literally just now on Sky News shown that he has no idea how important a project like the NBN is to Australia.

When speaking on matters that have anything to do with electricity, computers, wires, fibres or batteries...he is quite simply out of his depth and frankly an embarrassment.

He just said in a live press conference from Melbourne...

"The previous Labor Government were treating the NBN like an infrastructure project, rather than a broadband project".!!!!!???  LOL  

So much for wanting to be an "infrastructure PM"....

He went on to say...

"The NBN is going to operate under a very different basis under the Coalition, because we are going to put fibre to distribution points and then use existing technology we can deliver much faster broadband (really?!), much more affordably and much sooner"...

"Much faster broadband" than Labor's fibre to the home NBN?

Quite simply....a straight down the camera lens lie.

[pct001wine]

Abbott's concept of infrastructure is roads, roads, more roads.   This was made quite clear in his policy announcements.

I dare say he thinks the information superhighway is made from bitumen and concrete.  

I am also keen to hear from his government how they will exceed the speeds of the previous model with his FTTN approach.

[pct001wine]

[ca04]

Under Labor's rush to bust NBN plan more than a few have  not only got NBN but now have lost  their ADSL & their  phone service.

One sure way to enshure you get NBN on the old plan was to buy a new house in a new suburb.

3 months ago NBN's website said  Darwin was finished at the end of last year and my part of alice Springs was finished by Feb this year.They are stalled in Darwin & have not even been seen Alice  yet.

Turnbill's plan will at least ensure that no one will loose their service, internet or phone.

 When you can send me a physical object on the internet then I will belive internet structure is more imortant than road,rail,air transport. 

[freakiness]

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@ca04 wrote:

Under Labor's rush to bust NBN plan more than a few have  not only got NBN but now have lost  their ADSL & their  phone service.

One sure way to enshure you get NBN on the old plan was to buy a new house in a new suburb.

3 months ago NBN's website said  Darwin was finished at the end of last year and my part of alice Springs was finished by Feb this year.They are stalled in Darwin & have not even been seen Alice  yet.

Turnbill's plan will at least ensure that no one will loose their service, internet or phone.

 When you can send me a physical object on the internet then I will belive internet structure is more imortant than road,rail,air transport. 

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Who has lost their ADSL?

People do not lose their ADSL and phone some time before the NBN is build in their area. That's just another one of the made up stories to discredit the NBN.

Turnbull's plan will ensure nothing better than we have now. 

If you've got a 3d printer you could receive physical items.  People now can use it for daily physiotherapy, daily medical checks, study in courses that they would have had to leave home for.  It's madness to dump it now and replace it with something Telstra wanted about 20 years ago which is dated now and will cost almost as much as the  Labor plan.

[colic2bullsgirlore]

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@pct001wine wrote:

Seems a bit like the weekly reporting of boat arrivals.   Is this the hallmark of this new government - giving us the news they want us to have ?  Where's the transparency ?

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