That's what I find amusing every time I hear a comparison on the TV of the "Turnbull plan" vs the "Labor plan to have fibre to the premises for everyone by 2018 at $xx".
The original plan was simply never going to happen, and so it's an endlessly pointless comparison. Even Labor now isn't promising to do it. They know it can't be delivered. There were pockets were it did work. Armidale and Coffs Harbour, for example, got what was promised. But that was because they had a local member who was the only thing holding the government in power. It was pure politics, not economics. Now, do I like the current plan? *Not at all.* If I was in charge, I'd take away the $55B sub project and fund the NBN properly. The subs are a complete waste of money. I struggle to see how they'll have real value for us by say 2035 when we'll get them, and again, they are only being built that way for political reasons in SA. If, by 2035, I had to put my money on subs that are basically there for covert surveillance, or on say tens of thousands of aquatic drones designed to find subs, I'd put my money on the drones. We should be building things to make these types of subs pointless, not building the subs. US subs as mobile missile platforms are a different story, but that's not ours. I suspect that if Turnbull said "we're spending the money to build the NBN properly", there would be a massive sigh of relief across the country. 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 *David Connors *Sent:* Saturday, 6 January 2018 11:11 AM *To:* ozDotNet <[email protected]> *Subject:* Re: [OT] Internet use on 4G LTE On Sat, 6 Jan 2018 at 09:52 Tony Wright <[email protected]> wrote: I'm sure you have an answer for everything, but people in my area were being connected. Here, I put the data from the governance report into excel for you. The column in red shows for the given period, what % of 'premises passed' were left with no ability to order services - Service Class 0. Anywhere from 15 to almost 50%. As the previous graph I posted shows, the figure was going up like a cliff face. To put that in English, NBN was quoting premises as passed and *ready for service* numbers which were so low that there was no end in site for the project - and even of those numbers that were so low, 15-50% of them were bullshit anyway because NBN was running fibre past places with no lead in and declaring them done. They needed to be doing ~5K premises per day to hit their numbers and at the end of Quigley's reign they managed to get to 809 per day that they reported by the 400-690 of them were actually able to order service. That is catastrophic no matter how you cut it. Under their current management their rolling average at the moment is nearly 12K premises per day being made ready to connect (for reals). I know you're upset you didn't get fibre, but I'm surprised you have such difficulty in looking at the performance of the company objectively and seeing that it was imploding due to its own mismanagement. Week Ending Point of Interest Premises Passed and RFS Premesis Serviceable Premises at Service Class Zero Premises Passed in Period Premises made SC0 in period % rolled out impossible to connect 09/09/2013 206,214 142,183 64,031 12,135 2,288 18.85% 19/08/2013 194,079 132,336 61,743 4,070 1,906 46.83% 12/08/2013 190,009 130,172 59,837 21,276 3,247 15.26% 08/07/2013 168,733 112,143 56,590 5,218 866 16.60% 01/07/2013 163,515 107,791 55,724 53,655 21,617 40.29% 17/06/2013 109,860 75,753 34,107 31,062 12,913 41.57% 27/05/2013 78,798 57,604 21,194 3,116 507 16.27% 20/05/2013 75,682 54,995 20,687 7,304 1,730 23.69% 22/04/2013 68,378 49,421 18,957 187 No previous period data No previous period data 15/04/2013 68,191 0 68,191 20,683 No previous period data No previous period data 11/03/2013 47,508 0 47,508 18,076 No previous period data No previous period data 04/09/2012 29,432 0 29,432 29,432 No previous period data No previous period data -- David Connors [email protected] | @davidconnors | https://t.me/davidconnors | LinkedIn | +61 417 189 363
