"When the fttp values were being installed, and they said that they'd passed 1000 homes but only connected 16, that is simply because homes had over a year to switch over"
It wasn't actually. The issue was that even if they wanted to, only 16 could connect. They had passed places like unit blocks where no lead in work had occurred. Regards, Greg Dr Greg Low 1300SQLSQL (1300 775 775) office | +61 419201410 mobile│ +61 3 8676 4913 fax SQL Down Under | Web: www.sqldownunder.com |http://greglow.me *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Tony Wright *Sent:* Saturday, 6 January 2018 10:32 AM *To:* ozDotNet <[email protected]> *Subject:* Re: [OT] Internet use on 4G LTE May as well have taken that $11 billion and made a big pile of money and burnt it all. What a financially incompetent move. When you replace your modem you don't choose the same modem or even one that is only a touch better than what you have, you get rid of your draft n modem and replace it with an ac modem. The only thing they ended up promising was the same speed that you could already get from adsl2. What a disgrace. Now, back to Greg's comment. I actually agree that it should have been a nation building project. Done one, done right. In Thailand there could be 100 fttp providers, but the consequence of that is that there are thousands of fibre cables hanging off power lines in a huge mess. Such is pure capitalism, where anyone is allowed to provide that service. In Vietnam, they have 3 providers, but they still have 100s of fibre cables neatly bundled again hanging oft power lines. When the fttp values were being installed, and they said that they'd passed 1000 homes but only connected 16, that is simply because homes had over a year to switch over. The nbn at the time was running 6 months behind. In my area, I was scheduled to receive nbn about a month after nbn 1 was cancelled. I believe that would have happened 6 months later, as I had seen the cabling being installed in Carlton just down the road. That was almost 3 years ago. Now, instead, they want to install hfc. Hfc so far has failed. They have delayed the install because everyone that has switched over had substandard failing nbn. Thanks to Liberal incompetence. It's an absolute disaster of Turnbulls making and it makes me mad. I would have had pure nbn about 2 years ago, and now look at the state of things. My only respite is that I have existing 10 year old Telstra cable that provides me with 114Mbps download and 2Mbps upload. This should be seen for what it is - an absolute failure of the Liberal Party policy. On 5 Jan 2018 9:30 PM, "David Connors" <[email protected]> wrote: On Fri., 5 Jan. 2018, 8:51 pm Ken Schaefer, <[email protected]> wrote: Are you being deliberately obtuse? In 2011 (per you link), NBN was going to be fibre-to-the-premise. There was no technical need to buy any HFC or copper, and as you say, compensation was for destroying an existing business model. That's right however when the second definitive agreement was negotiated the $11bln price stated the same, hence the price of the HFC and CAN were $0. David -- David Connors [email protected] | @davidconnors | https://t.me/davidconnors | LinkedIn | +61 417 189 363
