back to article NBN to expand wireless, rejig satellites, spend more

There's to be a shake-up in satellite and fixed wireless rollouts of Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN), with the “last seven per cent” of users incapable of being served by some kind of wire to be rebalanced between the two services, and 25,000 premises added to the yet-to-be-commenced fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) network …

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  1. Winkypop Silver badge
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    Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN)

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    1. Goat Jam

      Yes, because the Rudd/Gillard/Rudd governments were the epitome of responsible behaviour.

      The definition of responsible does not cover dingbats who spend $8.4B to connect 160K homes to the Internet.

      1. Winkypop Silver badge

        Compared to the Abbott/Hockey puppet show...

        Yes.

      2. Roger Jenkins

        Well Goat Jam, perhaps that amount of money has been spent, but was it purely spent on connecting those homes? No, it was spent on the satellites, on backhaul, on core infrastructure as well as connecting homes. Now the current government will build on that infrastructure, spend an extra gawd alone knows how much more and they'll claim that they gave us faster, sooner and cheaper while failing to mention that without the infrastructure already in the ground that their plans just can't work...hang on, even with that infrastructure their plans can't work, so bloody responsible eh?

  2. Rastus

    The whole NBN project is a complete waste of money! I have ADSL2 with a download speed of around 1.5Mb/s. That's plenty for me. It loads web pages in a second or two, and I can download a movie in 15 minutes. I don't NEED anything more. Anyone who does is just greedy! It's going to end up costing >$70 beeeellion (regardless of what they've quoted), and we could have gotten much more useful infrastructure for that amount of money.

  3. Colin Tree

    Moore's Law

    Rastus, Moore's law also applies to communication speeds, otherwise I might still be very happy with my 300 baud modem, you definitely wouldn't remember having 50 baud would you.

    The future should include active web pages viewing as real time hd video, not just low res small you-tube vids in a window.

    Doctors using ultra hi res imaging in real time, engineers and scientists working with massive data acquisition in real time.

    You just be happy downloading your porn in 15 minutes, meanwhile the rest of the world is progressing into the 21st century.

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