NBN 'can be changed

[catsnknots]

I have always questioned the cost benefit of the NBN... I do agree with a nationwide upgrade but think that every aspect needs to be fully and openly addressed. I do not think this has happened... 

the telecommunications industry peak body, the Communications Alliance, has been asked to  initiate the study in an effort to "bring commercial reality to the theoretical debate" on broadband technologies.

"Ever since Labor's $50bn fibre-to-the-premises NBN was announced in April 2009 the Coalition and many others have called for an independent, transparent review of the options for delivering fast broadband to all Australians," he said.

"These calls were motivated by our concern that Labor had chosen the slowest and most expensive way of achieving such an upgrade.

"it was not too late to discuss the future of the NBN and make decisions based on "good data and facts".

"Having an open debate that weighs up the pros and cons of alternatives can only be positive,"

 "it would not be too late to alter the design of the current rollout but added it would result in complications.

"None of this is too late to talk about," 

[topsidesoul]

Do I really need 100mbs?

Video game consoles dictate future film and movie media.

If it was not for the PS2, blu ray would not have taken off like it has.

Game consoles as well as PC's and everything else are headed for digital distribution to make more money and cut down on piracy.

No more hard copies means no more people buying second hand games/mobies/tv shows  and  distributors of this media will not loose money from the reselling.

Online data storage will take off, especially amongst apple users and massive 3tb hard drives will be a thing of the past.

Blu rays and DVD's will be gones by 2020 and replaced with streaming or downloading and we will need something better than the copper wire network we have from the 1920's.

So yes, you will need 100mbs and faster everyone whinging about it need to realise that we need to keep up with technology.

[topsidesoul]

Also, Telstra have stopped the upkeep of the current broadband systems.

From talking to some contractors, there are currently allot of bottlenecks and connection speed problems because of the fact they do not want to waste money keeping the current system alive and are concentrating on the new high speed fibre optic network.