NBN costs creating budget time bomb: Deloitte Once a fan of Australia's National Broadband Network, Deloitte Access Economics is now warning it's a time bomb for the federal budget. Last week, the federal government tipped in a loan of AU$19.5 billion so nbnTM could finish its NBN rollout. Deloitte is now warning that the network doesn't cover the government's total $49 …
The dude who installed NBN at the Git's home told him the NTD cost $AU600. In Japan the NTD is a $AU15 Ethernet port. If the Japanese need the functionality provided by the NBN's NTD, they purchase a device to plug into the Ethernet port. Apart from lining the pockets of the manufacturers, can anyone tell me why every NBN installation needs an NTD with four ports for four separate RSPs? Ten million $AU600 devices is a lot of moolah for the ALP's mates and matesses.
If you are asking why don't we just have a Ethernet port on the wall to plug into?
This would be down to the technologies being deployed.
The FTTP NTU had the option of running 4 ISP services, and 2 PSTN to VoIP services.
The FTTN needs a VDSL modem, which only allows for a single ISP and a single PSTN to VoIP service.
In Japan they must have a NTU with multiple ethernet ports servicing appartments. Technically we could have this is the FTTB model but the apartment buildings will need to replace their crappy phone lines for CAT5 ethernet cable.
If you are asking why don't we just have a Ethernet port on the wall to plug into?I am indeed. Why would any average household need to access four different ISPs? I'm on FW and there's VOIP (two ports) via the Internet router supplied my my ISP. There's no secondary box for VOIP because we retain a POTS so no need for VOIP. The conclusion I reached very soon after the NBN rollout commenced here in Tasmania is that this hasn't been very well thought out.
Why would any average household need to access four different ISPs?
I believe the extra ports were designed for government/proprietary networks, like ehealth, megaport, aws, auspost, etc. Good idea, but no longer viable as the model relies on a ubiquitous network.
Internet Australia, the NFP peak body representing Internet users, wants the Government to allow nbn to abandon its copper (FTTN) rollout in order to help minimise the amount of money it will need to borrow to complete this vital infrastructure project.
This follows the announcement that nbn is to borrow almost $20 billion from the Government, repayable in 2020/21.
CEO Laurie Patton pointed to community concerns about the limited speeds being delivered to customers on the FTTN network and to advice from IA's technical experts that FTTN will need to be replaced in 10 to 15 years' time if not sooner.
"nbn must be encouraged to use future-proofed technologies that will provide for our long term broadband requirements without the need to incur massive upgrade costs even before the business becomes profitable", Mr Patton said, "The way it looks now, at the time when they have to repay the Government they will need to borrow more money to rebuild the FTTN network".
Internet Australia believes that nbn should move to new technology options that weren't available when the Government instructed it to abandon its fibre-to-the-premises model in favour of copper.
"nbn recently acknowledged that it cannot use the Optus Pay TV cables and has decided instead to deploy more advanced fibre to the distribution point (FTTdp) technology, also known as fibre to the driveway or, as nbn is now calling it, fibre to the curb (FTTC). If they have decided that FTTN is not good enough for the people who were to have the NBN delivered via Optus cables then surely they should use FTTdp for everyone? Otherwise, we will be creating a new digital divide - people with the fastest up to date service and others stuck back in the 20th Century".
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Because the Coalition needed to be seen as having a different policy to the ALP. And by coming up with the FTTN model they could fudge the figures to make it look like they were saving money.
And when I say "fudge the figures" to a certain extent I mean "outright lie about costs".
Still waiting to hear if/when my building will get NBN, and what form it will take. Last document I heard had us changed from the FTTP we were promised would be installed by the end of 2013 to FTTN with work starting before the end of this year. No word from anyone about it, and no sign of any work going on.
Its unfortunate that the Libs thought they needed to have a different policy to Labor. With so many people who do understand technology predicting this outcome long before the multi-technology mix was adopted, they could have won a lot more people over saying they agree the original version was a good plan but opting to improve delivery time and costs with comparable technology like FTTC and unlike FTTN.
The way they have done it, and they way they are cutting so many corners now to get anything rolled out as quickly as possible Deloitte is entirely correct. This will remain a f**kup of epic proportions in costs and lack of fitness for purpose for a very long time. And it will be very hard to spin it any other way to the large and always growing number of Australians who get their news online and not from the traditional printed media.
The LNP's NBN was crafted by Telstra, News Corp, Foxtel and the only focus was to grab billions of tax payer dollars and screw the consequences. I am starting to think the idiot LNP pollies were just scammed believing the bullshit, they were being fed, as far as they were concernded they would trade 15 billion tax payer dollars in exchange for being elected, for blatant News Corp bias in reporting to get them past labour.
Now as was fore told it is all blowing up in their faces the biggest fraud in Australian history is unravelling before their very eyes as the LNP NBN basically falls apart and now must revert to the Labour plan minus about 20 billion dollars wasted, a phenomenal sum, thrown away to line the pockets of the insanely greedy.
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