Labor releases national NBN maps: pics
Summary: At a press conference in Perth today, Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Communications Minister Stephen Conroy released maps detailing the fibre, wireless and satellite footprint of the National Broadband Network (NBN).
At a press conference in Perth today, Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Communications Minister Stephen Conroy released maps detailing the fibre, wireless and satellite footprint of the National Broadband Network (NBN).
Gillard reiterated in her statement that the NBN footprint had been extended to cover 93 per cent of the population.
The maps see all major metro and regional population centres getting access to fibre to the home (FTTH) from the NBN, with others covered in the wireless and satellite footprint.
Both the communications minister and the Prime Minister said in today's press conference that the NBN was being delivered on time, on budget and would pay for itself.
In the press conference, Gillard highlighted that the NBN was an investment in Australia's future which would drive advances in the e-health sector.
After a nine-month NBN roll-out, customers are going live on Tasmania's NBN. Tasmanian Premier David Bartlett and supposedly Communications Minister Stephen Conroy too have thrown their support behind an NBN opt-out system.
Gillard highlighted that Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has said that he would scrap the NBN project if elected. The coalition is yet to announce its overarching ICT strategy in the run-up to the election.
Victoria is the state that will see the most FTTH infrastructure rolled out, if the maps are accurate.
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As such, your obvious bias is tainting and putting a question mark over everything you say.
Regardless of how pertinent your comments may or may not...be.
As for Big bill, we'll take his 20% of Tassie NBN free takers on board, but the latest Big bill? In just 3 months, the NBN has apparently already signed 50% of Tasmanians to the NBN. So...
I'll retain my copper connection for a while yet thanks - at least while there's a well maintained central battery system at the other end designed to power my humble fixed telephone for some hours.
While high speed internet is great fun for the domestic consumer - is it an essential service? Maybe other infrastructure or community and health services rank higher on a needs basis?
Is anybody brave enough to predict the final demise of copper cable in urban Australia?
Is NBN just the squeakiest wheel getting all the oil?
Why do we need faster internet? I am assuming it is for video and games? Email, browsing, Social networking, distance education, Skype with video calls, Video conferencing and Youtube all work on the existing networks.
Business' who deem they need more bandwidth for commercial reasons have a range of solutions to choose from on a cost benefit basis. Parents don't want their kids doing home schooling over the internet because they want to or have to work and school is the free baby sitting service.
Austar and Foxtel provide a 1000 channel capacity digital transmission service that covers the whole of Australia. A business or goverment body could buy some capacity to get a lesson or training material beamed out. Existing satellite technology will allow you to handle video and transfer files.
We ran a temporary office with five computers on a 3G wireless router for four months with little apparent slow down.
Other than emotional argument from the pro camp saying we have to have it because we are behind the rest of the world and con camp saying it will cost too much I have seen little detail on the facts. I have to pay tax. It will cost more than $43 Bil, Government projects always do. Why are the trial users being subsidised. Would they sign up if it was not subsidised. Is it an accurate way to collect data on take up of the NBN? Why won't the NBN release the modelling that they are basing the costings on?
My regards