NBN rollout behind target, claims yet another leaked report

The company charged with building and operating Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN) is denying a Fairfax media report that its multi-technology model (MTM) rollout is stalling. Over the weekend, The Sydney Morning Herald got its hands on a leaked nbnTM internal document dated February 19 suggesting a slow-down. …

[Anonymous Coward]

FTFY

"That brought nbn CFO Stephen Rue to the airwaves with the four-fledged argument that : everything is fine; the company is confident it will hit its KEY targets; management is on top of problems, because that's what proper managers do, and; the company doesn't comment on leaked reports."

You missed the weasel word qualifier...

[Magani]

nbn™ : Good, Cheap, Fast - Pick any two^H^H^H^H one

[Adam 1]

To be honest I am having trouble identifying any.

Good? It leaves the worst conditioned bits of the copper in the ground and adds new nodes that need active power and cooling, look unsightly and will need future upgrades as technology evolves and will be obsolete by the time it is rolled out.

Cheap? Yeah 'bout that...

Fast? Well it is 2016 and the numbers speak for themselves.

[Winkypop]

It's the NBN Jim, but not as we know it

Maybe all that degraded copper infrastructure is slowing things down...

[Knoydart]

So how is the FTTN roll out then El Reg?

Going to suggest having a read of this

[Jasonk]

Re: So how is the FTTN roll out then El Reg?

Yes to get those speeds it's over 100m of copper. So now we need more work getting fiber closer again to increase the speed of the copper agian just to deliver fibre to the fence.

[Colin Tree]

brothel

"perhaps a new transformer. ......"

how much power does a node need ?

is that the best excuse you can come up with, there is a whole book full of excuses

"Rue also said the company more than doubled its activations in 2015, and of its current 1.8 million ready-for-service premises, 800,000 are now connected............"

that's very close to the ratio given in the leak, about 50% unconnected

" 740,000 premises behind the 1.4 million target............."

CFO didn't mention the FTTN backlog

" 29,005 fibre-to-the-node.............of more than 94,000........"

sounds like less than a third of the way there,

management shite,

couldn't manage a fuckup in a brothel !