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  1. Rather than build the network that Australia needs our government is allowing commercial interests to build what's most profitable.
    #AusPol #telecommunications #NBN #sovereignty

  2. Question posted to the Better Internet For Rural, Regional And Remote Australia (BIRRR) Facebook group
    facebook.com/share/p/1ERpuM9N3
    PSTN = Public Switched Telephone Network
    #AusPol #telecommunications #NBN

  3. @Gh0stlyM0use honestly, don't blame the concept of the NBN, blame Malcolm Turnbull.

    I spent a good few years writing on comms tech and the like before the 2013 election, and it was clear, even then, that the FTTC/FTTdp arrangement was going to be a failure.

    Even now, we're about 5-10 years behind the Lib's own plan, purely because of the disruption in 2013.

    We should be rocking full NG-PON/XG-PON by now

    #auspol #NBN

  4. CW: AusPol

    Something stifling private enterprise something if only a later government had the numbers to fix the legislation. Oh wait

    This is a shamefully slanted hit piece, #ABC. It elides the culpability of intervening governments who nobbled the #NBN rollout because they could do it "cheaper" and who would have screamed at regulating private operators to NBN reqs.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-04-18/nbn

    It looks largely recycled from this older, more balanced piece:

    abc.net.au/news/2026-03-19/opt

    #AusPol

  5. "I have long argued that the NBN should never have been framed as a commercial profit centre. Its real returns are economy-wide: productivity gains, social inclusion, digital service delivery and competitiveness in a software-driven world.

    We are upgrading a network that should never have required this level of remediation, …

    Australia does not need another round of incremental fixes. It needs a renewed telecommunications vision — one that treats digital infrastructure as essential nation-building, not merely as a market to be tuned at the margins."
    independentaustralia.net/busin
    #AusPol #telecommunications #NBN
    @aj

  6. Who is most credible @NewtonMark
    - the bloke with a doctorate who teaches the subjects or;
    - some dude who claims to have done it all?
    As I said, it's here for all to judge.
    @aj
    #AusPol #telecommunications #NBN

  7. @NewtonMark
    As I said, the references are there for all to judge — as are your assertions.
    @aj
    #AusPol #telecommunications #NBN

  8. The references are there for all to judge @NewtonMark
    And your doctorate is …? 🤔
    @aj
    #AusPol #telecommunications #NBN

  9. How your failure to understand reflects on you, others will judge @NewtonMark

    Dr Gregory and Kenneth Tsang (not the deceased actor) are credible experts. Prove them wrong.

    The blog post is no longer readily accessible. Here it is on the Wayback Machine:
    web.archive.org/web/2015110814
    @aj
    #AusPol #telecommunications #NBN

  10. @aj
    "Originally, the network was to be based around a ring topology. That has been changed to a star or hub-and-spoke architecture. … A ring topology provides at least two paths between any two points in the network. The star arrangement has multiple single-points-of-failure. It's far less robust and reliable, not substantially cheaper and no quicker to implement."
    david.boxall.id.au/201604/defa
    So, even if they now implement a full FttP NBN, it won't be as robust as the original plan.
    #AusPol #telecommunications #NBN

  11. Remember a few years ago, how Tony the Terrible promised us that reusing old copper wires in the National Broadband Network would make it cheaper?

    How Tony made his rival, Malcolm Turnbull, the Communications Minister, and then forced Malcolm to go along with it, even though he almost certainly knew it was BS?

    And how the stenographers in the Canberra Press Gallery all went along with it uncritically, and claimed a Fibre-to-the-premises NBN by Julia Gillard was an example of wasteful spending?

    Well, the NBN is now ripping up many of those old copper wires and replacing them with fibre.

    And the NBN is paying a small fortune to ISPs for service problems on those old copper lines:

    "NBN Co’s bill for rebates to its retailers related to fibre-to-the-premise (FTTP) service problems jumped sharply in the last quarter of 2025, just as its copper replacement program started to enter high gear.

    "Rebates that the national network builder had been paying to its RSP customers related to FTTP services had been steady since the beginning of the year, peaking at about 23,247 by the end of September quarter, according to data it lodges with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).

    "However, in the final December quarter of the year NBN Co reported paying 32,411 rebates related to FTTP service problems - a jump of nearly 40 percent on the previous quarter.

    "An NBN Co spokesperson told iTnews that in the first half of the 2026 financial year it converted 287,000 premises from copper connections to fibre. taking its upgrade total to more than a million.

    "However, the company conceded that some connection technology shifts in the field were proving to be less straightforward than others.
    ...
    "NBN Co wants to minimise further investment in copper that would drag investment away from new fibre deployments which, it argues, are inherently more reliable and cheaper to maintain."

    https://www.itnews.com.au/news/nbn-co-pays-up-as-fttp-service-levels-wobble-624801

    #auspol #telco #NBN #Telstra #Optus #TPG #Australia #news #broadband

  12. Remember a few years ago, how Tony the Terrible promised us that reusing old copper wires in the National Broadband Network would make it cheaper?

    How Tony made his rival, Malcolm Turnbull, the Communications Minister, and then forced Malcolm to go along with it, even though he almost certainly knew it was BS?

    And how the stenographers in the Canberra Press Gallery all went along with it uncritically, and claimed a Fibre-to-the-premises NBN by Julia Gillard was an example of wasteful spending?

    Well, the NBN is now ripping up many of those old copper wires and replacing them with fibre.

    And the NBN is paying a small fortune to ISPs for service problems on those old copper lines:

    "NBN Co’s bill for rebates to its retailers related to fibre-to-the-premise (FTTP) service problems jumped sharply in the last quarter of 2025, just as its copper replacement program started to enter high gear.

    "Rebates that the national network builder had been paying to its RSP customers related to FTTP services had been steady since the beginning of the year, peaking at about 23,247 by the end of September quarter, according to data it lodges with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).

    "However, in the final December quarter of the year NBN Co reported paying 32,411 rebates related to FTTP service problems - a jump of nearly 40 percent on the previous quarter.

    "An NBN Co spokesperson told iTnews that in the first half of the 2026 financial year it converted 287,000 premises from copper connections to fibre. taking its upgrade total to more than a million.

    "However, the company conceded that some connection technology shifts in the field were proving to be less straightforward than others.
    ...
    "NBN Co wants to minimise further investment in copper that would drag investment away from new fibre deployments which, it argues, are inherently more reliable and cheaper to maintain."

    https://www.itnews.com.au/news/nbn-co-pays-up-as-fttp-service-levels-wobble-624801

    #auspol #telco #NBN #Telstra #Optus #TPG #Australia #news #broadband

  13. Remember a few years ago, how Tony the Terrible promised us that reusing old copper wires in the National Broadband Network would make it cheaper?

    How Tony made his rival, Malcolm Turnbull, the Communications Minister, and then forced Malcolm to go along with it, even though he almost certainly knew it was BS?

    And how the stenographers in the Canberra Press Gallery all went along with it uncritically, and claimed a Fibre-to-the-premises NBN by Julia Gillard was an example of wasteful spending?

    Well, the NBN is now ripping up many of those old copper wires and replacing them with fibre.

    And the NBN is paying a small fortune to ISPs for service problems on those old copper lines:

    "NBN Co’s bill for rebates to its retailers related to fibre-to-the-premise (FTTP) service problems jumped sharply in the last quarter of 2025, just as its copper replacement program started to enter high gear.

    "Rebates that the national network builder had been paying to its RSP customers related to FTTP services had been steady since the beginning of the year, peaking at about 23,247 by the end of September quarter, according to data it lodges with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).

    "However, in the final December quarter of the year NBN Co reported paying 32,411 rebates related to FTTP service problems - a jump of nearly 40 percent on the previous quarter.

    "An NBN Co spokesperson told iTnews that in the first half of the 2026 financial year it converted 287,000 premises from copper connections to fibre. taking its upgrade total to more than a million.

    "However, the company conceded that some connection technology shifts in the field were proving to be less straightforward than others.
    ...
    "NBN Co wants to minimise further investment in copper that would drag investment away from new fibre deployments which, it argues, are inherently more reliable and cheaper to maintain."

    https://www.itnews.com.au/news/nbn-co-pays-up-as-fttp-service-levels-wobble-624801

    #auspol #telco #NBN #Telstra #Optus #TPG #Australia #news #broadband

  14. Remember a few years ago, how Tony the Terrible promised us that reusing old copper wires in the National Broadband Network would make it cheaper?

    How Tony made his rival, Malcolm Turnbull, the Communications Minister, and then forced Malcolm to go along with it, even though he almost certainly knew it was BS?

    And how the stenographers in the Canberra Press Gallery all went along with it uncritically, and claimed a Fibre-to-the-premises NBN by Julia Gillard was an example of wasteful spending?

    Well, the NBN is now ripping up many of those old copper wires and replacing them with fibre.

    And the NBN is paying a small fortune to ISPs for service problems on those old copper lines:

    "NBN Co’s bill for rebates to its retailers related to fibre-to-the-premise (FTTP) service problems jumped sharply in the last quarter of 2025, just as its copper replacement program started to enter high gear.

    "Rebates that the national network builder had been paying to its RSP customers related to FTTP services had been steady since the beginning of the year, peaking at about 23,247 by the end of September quarter, according to data it lodges with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).

    "However, in the final December quarter of the year NBN Co reported paying 32,411 rebates related to FTTP service problems - a jump of nearly 40 percent on the previous quarter.

    "An NBN Co spokesperson told iTnews that in the first half of the 2026 financial year it converted 287,000 premises from copper connections to fibre. taking its upgrade total to more than a million.

    "However, the company conceded that some connection technology shifts in the field were proving to be less straightforward than others.
    ...
    "NBN Co wants to minimise further investment in copper that would drag investment away from new fibre deployments which, it argues, are inherently more reliable and cheaper to maintain."

    https://www.itnews.com.au/news/nbn-co-pays-up-as-fttp-service-levels-wobble-624801

    #auspol #telco #NBN #Telstra #Optus #TPG #Australia #news #broadband

  15. Remember a few years ago, how Tony the Terrible promised us that reusing old copper wires in the National Broadband Network would make it cheaper?

    How Tony made his rival, Malcolm Turnbull, the Communications Minister, and then forced Malcolm to go along with it, even though he almost certainly knew it was BS?

    And how the stenographers in the Canberra Press Gallery all went along with it uncritically, and claimed a Fibre-to-the-premises NBN by Julia Gillard was an example of wasteful spending?

    Well, the NBN is now ripping up many of those old copper wires and replacing them with fibre.

    And the NBN is paying a small fortune to ISPs for service problems on those old copper lines:

    "NBN Co’s bill for rebates to its retailers related to fibre-to-the-premise (FTTP) service problems jumped sharply in the last quarter of 2025, just as its copper replacement program started to enter high gear.

    "Rebates that the national network builder had been paying to its RSP customers related to FTTP services had been steady since the beginning of the year, peaking at about 23,247 by the end of September quarter, according to data it lodges with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).

    "However, in the final December quarter of the year NBN Co reported paying 32,411 rebates related to FTTP service problems - a jump of nearly 40 percent on the previous quarter.

    "An NBN Co spokesperson told iTnews that in the first half of the 2026 financial year it converted 287,000 premises from copper connections to fibre. taking its upgrade total to more than a million.

    "However, the company conceded that some connection technology shifts in the field were proving to be less straightforward than others.
    ...
    "NBN Co wants to minimise further investment in copper that would drag investment away from new fibre deployments which, it argues, are inherently more reliable and cheaper to maintain."

    https://www.itnews.com.au/news/nbn-co-pays-up-as-fttp-service-levels-wobble-624801

    #auspol #telco #NBN #Telstra #Optus #TPG #Australia #news #broadband

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  17. We upgraded our NBN connection from FTTC to FTTP, and because the switch to FTTP allowed us to upgrade to the Home Ultrafast speed tier, now our download speeds are ten times faster and our upload speeds are four times faster that before :)

    If you're interested in the details, I wrote about this on my blog:

    2026 NBN update: the final upgrade | insanityworks.org/randomtangen

    #blog #nbn #internet #australia

  18. Bloody hell, in the UK - you can get 5Gbps symmetrical fibre internet for ~AUD 158.

    Best you can get down under is 2Gbps/0.5Gbps down for AUD 220.

    We’re still a backwater, screwed by Onion Man’s ideological hatred for anything by the other side.

    #NBN

  19. Hey #Australia
    Shouldn't these people be paying for 50% of our #NBN ?
    After all they are raking in Billions $s off the back of OUR investment/taxes.
    Why are we paying 100% for the NBN? Should there not be a fee for the very biggest users of the #NBN like #Meta, #Google, #X, #Netflix, #Disney, #Microsoft...
    Please feel free to play devils advocate in the comments below.
    #AUSpol

  20. Update: Even though #AussieBroadband had a recorded message saying my postcode was currently having an outage, they didn't know about it!

    It was that naughty #NBN busy working on making sure the outage of eight days ago didn't happen again. And while making sure it didn't happen again, they made it happen again. And will probably continue doing so, on and off, for the next ten hours.

  21. After a very very long wait - we finally have fibre to the home! #NBN

    I’m appalled at how long this has taken but happy it’s arrived. Now we just can’t move anywhere for the next few years!

  22. ⚠️ NBN Atlas downtime – Tuesday 9 December (07:30–09:00) Essential maintenance work on the #NBN #Atlas means there will be no web services tomorrow until after 9am. #Brighton #Wildlife #Biodiversity #brightonwildlife

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  26. I've regularly mocked the #NBN about the free #FTTP upgrade I'm getting. Justifiably. It's been a saga. 🤷

    However, the team labouring away today, the ones making all those strange noises, *are still working*. At 6:45pm. Official sunset is 7:09pm, but we lose it ~15 mins earlier. They start around 7:30am.

    I'm surprised & impressed, & hope they're well paid for such long days. I *really* hope they're not being exploited.

    #CreditWhereItsDue

  27. It's been some months now, yet still I hide with doors locked & curtains drawn. As I write, there are noises, strange mechanical noises. Through a gap I spy men in orange & yellow uniforms coming in & out of view. They're digging in, fortifying. I fear my time is near, the end approaches.

    I leave these records in hope that others will never experience the horror, the travails, indeed, the terrible costs, of their free NBN fibre to the premises upgrade.

    The NBN Travails #836

    #NBN
    #FTTP

  28. My #NBN #FTTP upgrade has been booked in by nbnco, finally!

  29. Hurrah! Another #NBN tech visit to install fibre to the home. Another, "well shit, nope, we can't do that, but we can do this [civil engineering project]. We'll run the fibre from further away, chop down a bunch of trees, and install a new pole instead of using the obvious existing path, or we'll chop different trees & bore a tunnel through the solid rock you're on. That won't waste money. Oh, that internal cabling you paid to install on our advice? Yeah, you'll need to move it."

    #FTTP

  30. Not a complaint.

    My #NBN "1 day 1 tradie" free upgrade to full fibre (#FTTP) continues. 4 separate #tradie days so far, at least 2 more to come.

    TBF, NBN strongly warns more complex installs may involve organising private tradies *at my cost*, but I always hope when a freebie's on offer. Nope. I'm a complex fella. 🫤

    TB*extra*F, I'm also paying for the private tradies to do some long overdue & useful work around home - the $$ aren't all for NBN. I just want it finished. 🥱

  31. Not a complaint.

    My #NBN "1 day 1 tradie" free upgrade to full fibre (#FTTP) continues. 4 separate #tradie days so far, at least 2 more to come.

    TBF, NBN strongly warns more complex installs may involve organising private tradies *at my cost*, but I always hope when a freebie's on offer. Nope. I'm a complex fella. 🫤

    TB*extra*F, I'm also paying for the private tradies to do some long overdue & useful work around home - the $$ aren't all for NBN. I just want it finished. 🥱

  32. Not a complaint.

    My #NBN "1 day 1 tradie" free upgrade to full fibre (#FTTP) continues. 4 separate #tradie days so far, at least 2 more to come.

    TBF, NBN strongly warns more complex installs may involve organising private tradies *at my cost*, but I always hope when a freebie's on offer. Nope. I'm a complex fella. 🫤

    TB*extra*F, I'm also paying for the private tradies to do some long overdue & useful work around home - the $$ aren't all for NBN. I just want it finished. 🥱

  33. Not a complaint.

    My #NBN "1 day 1 tradie" free upgrade to full fibre (#FTTP) continues. 4 separate #tradie days so far, at least 2 more to come.

    TBF, NBN strongly warns more complex installs may involve organising private tradies *at my cost*, but I always hope when a freebie's on offer. Nope. I'm a complex fella. 🫤

    TB*extra*F, I'm also paying for the private tradies to do some long overdue & useful work around home - the $$ aren't all for NBN. I just want it finished. 🥱

  34. Not a complaint.

    My #NBN "1 day 1 tradie" free upgrade to full fibre (#FTTP) continues. 4 separate #tradie days so far, at least 2 more to come.

    TBF, NBN strongly warns more complex installs may involve organising private tradies *at my cost*, but I always hope when a freebie's on offer. Nope. I'm a complex fella. 🫤

    TB*extra*F, I'm also paying for the private tradies to do some long overdue & useful work around home - the $$ aren't all for NBN. I just want it finished. 🥱

  35. Hopes joint NBN Co–Amazon satellite internet will transform remote connectivity

    Australia is set to get another satellite internet provider in 2026, giving SpaceX’s Starlink some long-awaited competition. Government-owned…
    #NewsBeep #News #Business #Amazon #AU #Australia #loworbit #NBN #ProjectKuiper #satelliteinternet #satellites #skymusterreplacement #Starlink #Telstra #WANews
    newsbeep.com/au/49297/