Election result boosted Kiama NBN opt-in
Summary: NBN Co received a 9 per cent surge in homeowners opting to have their homes connected to the National Broadband Network (NBN) in the first mainland roll-out site of Kiama following the 2010 Federal Election.
Loading... Please wait.NBN Co received a 9 per cent surge in homeowners opting to have their homes connected to the National Broadband Network (NBN) in the first mainland roll-out site of Kiama following the 2010 Federal Election.
NBN Co's local construction manager Lance Parkes told ZDNet Australia during a tour of the site last month that many residents were reluctant to opt into the NBN while the outcome of the election was unknown, but said that after the Labor Party formed a minority government, the orders came flooding in. According to Parkes, 66 per cent of residents had opted in prior to the election but this was boosted to 75 per cent afterwards.
NBN Co CEO Mike Quigley had announced an extension to the deadline for residents to opt in after the election because of those who had held back to wait out the uncertainty.
As of December 2010, 1764 homes out of a total of 2343 at the site had signed up to have the fibre connected to their homes.
Parkes said that residents had generally been welcoming of the construction in the area, despite Kiama being a "blue ribbon" Liberal seat.
Kiama resides in the Gilmore electorate, held by Liberal member Joanna Gash since 1996. Gash used the last day of parliament last year to take a constituent's complaint to the Prime Minister that their nature strip had been destroyed by NBN Co workers laying fibre in the area.
Parkes said cases like that were rare, and that NBN Co had been working hard to return nature strips and driveways to their previous condition after the fibre had been laid.
NBN Co has inducted 372 people to work on the site, with 100 to 150 working at peak construction time. The company has used 16 drilling machines in the course of the construction and work on the site is expected to be completed in March.
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oh how i don't miss those days....
the whole opt-out debate is ridiculous anyway .. it's win-win
Funny thing is, even if it were 99% take-up, advocate would still be here claiming some strange, backward moral victory, because of that defiant 1%...LOL!
The take up rate is those residences that then go on and sign up for NBN ISP plan from the two ISP's that are selling it.
... and the NBN ISP active plan take rate is? - err don't go there, stay with the FREE connection rate percentages, it sounds better - 'it's free'.
So why do you even bother...?
But let's be realistic in our scrutiny, because as has been mentioned by many others, we got SFA for 10 years from Minchin, Coonan and Co, so to expect Conroy/NBNCo to jump through hoops while we sat back and let the others do nothing but sip cristal... is very hypocritical.
But like all politicians we do at least, need to keep the bas****s honest.
The opposition (bereft of any positive alternatives) are having to, and are, successfully promoting a scare/mudslinging campaign of FUD. Sadly, people such as your self who are being force fed their BS are gladly swallowing it...imo!
Scrutiny... not invasiveness, interposition and interference.
Which is sadly, all this opposition (who if they actually had a meaningful alternative, would make them more credible) are currently practicing, imo!
That is 0.25 man year effor per 'connectable' but not active NBN household.
On that trial it would take 3.5 million man years of effort to do 14 million connections.
3.5 million man years / 10 years = 350,000 people per year required for the NBN.
Each year for 10 years. The 'tria'l completely fails any economic cost to benefit case.
So fair enough its trial, so on best case scale out lets say it eventually got to 10% of the man effort. That is 35,000 people each year, every year (NBN estimate was close to this not including external party effort and preparation - eg householder or business costs and effort). So that is a reasonable estimate.
Then factor in far lower takeup rates in actual usage, say 30% best case.
Thats 350,000 man years (35k x 10 years) = for a net result of 4m active NBN users.
That is close to the NBN estimates of 36b in labour outlays and 3k per connection (NBN stats) but if active use is only 30% then it is actually 9k per active takeup user.
The trend is to up to 50% of household/business being wireless ONLY long term and then at least 20% non participation, so 30% active takeup if not forced is reasonable.
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So re the NBN being rated worlds worst practice, we are not just 24 x cost effort of others in providing a connection - but in the actual 'active used' connection, we are nearly 72 x times the global standard expected $ cost deployment to active biilable cost recovery use. $9k an active user connection best case.
Its clearly uneconomic unless totally forced and all other alternatiives removed.
That wont happen, and would be political suicide.- it all goes to show just how wrong Conroy and esp Quigley have misjudged this.
You would do this in a massive depression, and to something else more critical.
Not in comms when there are more economic and desirable alternatives in place and a rapidly changing technology environment that allows re-use or other options.
Conroy and Quigley need to be replaced and the entire NBN ~ resolutioned ~ if Labor has any hope to salvage this NBN and their political survival.