Tag Archives: NBN

NBN Business Plan to Be Revealed

After months of arguments and counter arguments, the business plan for the National Broadband Network (NBN) is to finally be released today by the minister concerned, Stephen Conroy, almost two months after it was first received by the government. What we see at midday will undoubtedly be a testament to how many black textas are […]

Telstra: The Return

Well, the saga is finally complete. After nine days of shenanigans, the phone lines in my street are completely underground again, with Telstra returning yesterday morning to finally string a cable through the new conduit and re-splice the street line – again. So – nine days to fix a problem that blew most of the […]

Telstra Shenanigans

As I discussed in my article in regards to the structural separation of Telstra, there have been some major issues with my own copper phone line over the last week. For some time – (actually, the entire time of more than five years I’ve lived at our current address) – every single time a significant […]

Telstra Separation Goodness

With the passing in federal parliament on Monday of the Telecommunications Legislation Amendment Competition and Consumer Safeguards Bill 2010, the structural separation of Telstra is finally in sight, laying the foundations for the full establishment of the National Broadband Network (NBN). Up until now I have held off making any comment since the passing of […]

NBN: Not Mobile Wireless Broadband

A lot of debate over the NBN has centred on whether it should be a completely wireless solution. Certainly, there are functional benefits to wireless solutions, and many believe the NBN would be much cheaper and easier if it were a wireless solution. However, as I have discussed previously, wireless isn’t as quick, easy, and […]

12Mbps: Why The Coalition Doesn’t Get It

Throughout the whole broadband debate currently underway in this country, the 12Mbps figure has been bandied around quite a bit. Every single broadband plan in some way has included this “magic number” as the minimum speed that everyone should have available to them. Under the initial hybrid fibre/ADSL/WiMAX/satellite OPEL Networks plan – the initial phase […]

NBN: Congestion, Telecommuting and Productivity

Last week, I took a virtual slide rule to the potential REVENUE earnings of the forthcoming National Broadband Network (NBN), and came up with some rather surprising numbers. I didn’t even need convincing, but the numbers even surprised me and I’ve been working in the industry for 15 years. Obviously I was unable to factor […]

Conroy Hissy Fit vs Mitchell Tantrum

I found a humourous side note to comments by the editor of The Australian newspaper, Chris Mitchell, in which he accused Stephen Conroy of having a “hissy fit” in regards to coverage of the National Broadband Network (NBN) in his paper. Conroy Having ‘Hissy Fit’ Over The Australian’s NBN Coverage As much as I do […]

NBN: Viable or Not?

There has been a lot of bellyaching of late about whether or not the National Broadband Network (NBN) will be a viable proposition or not. Certainly, the purported cost of $43b is a lot of money, and when dealing with a sum of that magnitude, a certain level of caution is very obviously quite prudent. […]

NBN: The Opt-In/Opt-Out Debate

There has been a lot of discussion in recent weeks in regards to the opt-in or opt-out question for individual premises during the rollout of the National Broadband Network (NBN). In Tasmania, where the initial rollout of the network is underway, the government has chosen to adopt an “opt-out” model, while New South Wales and […]