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Wasn't I was told that bank branches closing was OK because I could use the local Post Office agency?
#Australia #AnthonyAlbanese #AusPol #DependencyOnTheNBN #NBN #MonetarySecurity https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/perth-mornings/post-offices-closing/106632292
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Rather than build the network that Australia needs our government is allowing commercial interests to build what's most profitable.
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Follow-up from Admin. Link to Reuters article in <alt> text.
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Telstra spin of CAN radio, among other things.
https://www.telstra.com.au/exchange/can-radio--when-technology-reaches-the-end-of-the-road-
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Reply by group admin:
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Question posted to the Better Internet For Rural, Regional And Remote Australia (BIRRR) Facebook group
https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1ERpuM9N3p/
PSTN = Public Switched Telephone Network
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@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
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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.
It looks largely recycled from this older, more balanced piece:
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"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.
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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."
https://independentaustralia.net/business/business-display/australias-telecom-expansion-still-paying-for-nbn-policy-mistakes,20725
#AusPol #telecommunications #NBN
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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
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@NewtonMark
As I said, the references are there for all to judge — as are your assertions.
@aj
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The references are there for all to judge @NewtonMark
And your doctorate is …? 🤔
@aj
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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:
https://web.archive.org/web/20151108145403/http://blog.jxeeno.com/nbn-releases-mtm-network-design-rules/
@aj
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@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."
https://david.boxall.id.au/201604/default.html#Wreckingthefoundations
So, even if they now implement a full FttP NBN, it won't be as robust as the original plan.
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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.
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"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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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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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 | https://www.insanityworks.org/randomtangent/2026/3/7/2026-nbn-update-the-final-upgrade
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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.
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Hurrah!
My replacement NBN box lasted almost three weeks! No really close lightning, no blackouts. I was using it, decided to unplug. Too late, by the time I got there it was faulting. No internet. Sigh? Back to [shudder] 4G. 😭
Sure, the box isn't flashing red this time, but it may as well be.
Does FTTP have this problem? 🤔
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Of course this should have been the case 10 years ago but that’s a whole other debate!
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At suggested by @decryption gave my ISP a call to discuss.
They asked me to send these photos to them and will raise a case with NBN to get this looked at.
Will see what happens from here …
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In the process of having #NBN upgrade my #FTTC connection to #FTTP.
Yesterday, while I was not at home, an NBN tech came and installed the NBN Utility Box that lives on the outside of the home. They must have also dragged in the new fibre cable as well.
Howver they didn't run the new fibre cable in a conduit between the existing old Telstra connection point and into the Utility Box, but rather just strung it across (and not meeting any of NBN's own minimum bend radius requirements).
Not sure if I should be happy with the quality of this installation or not?
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Hey #Australia
Shouldn't these people be paying for 50% of our #NBN ?
After all they are raking in Billions $s off the back of OUR investment/taxes.
Why are we paying 100% for the NBN? Should there not be a fee for the very biggest users of the #NBN like #Meta, #Google, #X, #Netflix, #Disney, #Microsoft...
Please feel free to play devils advocate in the comments below.
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Update: Even though #AussieBroadband had a recorded message saying my postcode was currently having an outage, they didn't know about it!
It was that naughty #NBN busy working on making sure the outage of eight days ago didn't happen again. And while making sure it didn't happen again, they made it happen again. And will probably continue doing so, on and off, for the next ten hours.
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After a very very long wait - we finally have fibre to the home! #NBN
I’m appalled at how long this has taken but happy it’s arrived. Now we just can’t move anywhere for the next few years!
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⚠️ NBN Atlas downtime – Tuesday 9 December (07:30–09:00) Essential maintenance work on the #NBN #Atlas means there will be no web services tomorrow until after 9am. #Brighton #Wildlife #Biodiversity #brightonwildlife
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CW: Australia’s ageing NBN satellites leave rural internet users struggling to connect
Great the piece of sh$t that was put in by Turnbull/Abbott with 💯 support of #thenationals is falling apart. It is aaaaallll your fault country people. Live with it. #nbn
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/may/20/australias-ageing-sky-muster-satellites-leave-rural-internet-struggling-to-connect?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other -
My #NBN #FTTP internet connection (newly installed to supposedly solve problems with the previous copper) keeps on dropping out for +15 minutes.
Which is an unappreciated blessing I guess.
This trash #Broadband network is the work of the Australian #LiberalParty who scrapped #Labor's planned 21st century network. And gave us a #NotFitForPurpose 20th century hodge-podge.
These technological maverns are now #Australia's #NuclearClowns.
So very #Trumpian.
#Putaresque
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@ozeng
That was my privileged choice. 👍Nothing I can do about #NBN , #Optus, #Immi, Education Directorate failing to enforce policy or make #ReasonableAdjustments for #SpecialNeeds students, next to nothing I can do about mistreatment in #AgedCare, getting #CleanAir in workplaces, (the list goes on)
But having to jump through hoops for the pleasure of trying to find barcodes to scan - at last, something I can can.
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Australia once self-identified as the "clever country".
That phrase has completely disappeared. Today we tracked down the exact moment the phrase vanished from the national consciousness…
It was the day we voted in #TonyAbbott as PM over Kevin Rudd.
#KevinRuddCoup #KevinRudd #cleverCountry #australia #auspol #smearCampaigns #NBN #sovereignWealthFund #miningTax #rupertMurdoch #foreignMeddling
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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
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@seankearney @glitchymatrix
6/9He was good on #JulianAssange. He even arranged an effective #miningTax that would go into a #SovereignWealthFund for things we genuinely needed, like plans for a real #NBN (#fibreToTheHome) plan. During the GFC he gave $1000 to each person, swiftly averting the crisis. He was on a tear. He was even able to reduce the number of people coming to Australia to be #exploited.
But during the insulation scheme rollout a couple people died and…(6/9)
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Again, #Australia is greeted to news of another coup, this time in #Myanmar.
Psst, don't think back too far to that time when they ousted the popularly elected PrimeMinister #KevinRudd in 2010.
#insulationSchemeSuccess #JulianAssangeSympathiser #fibreToTheHome #NBN #miningTax #lowerImmigration #butJuliaGillardSaid #butRupertMurdochSaid #losingOurWay
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So I'm trying to save some money and #selfhost a whole bunch of stuff that I have on various servers. I started down the #Yunohost route but some peeps have been said that it's not super sustainable long term. The bare minimal is to host a podcast, an #Airtime / #Libretime radio server, around 3 #Wordpress sites and various static sites; a #Mastodon instance would be sweet too.
I have a well spec'ed PC, a Fritzbox 4790 router and an #NBN #fibre connection to the house. The machine will more than cope, I seem to be having intermittent issues with ports 80 and 443 forwarding to the machine but that's probably a #Fritzbox issue. I'm using #noip to bind my dynamic IP to a base domain but I may switch to a static IP.
Any tips or advice? Is there a solution that is low-ish maintenance or am I dreaming? I do have reasonable #devops skills.
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Online but outpaced: Australia’s digital drift https://www.byteseu.com/1573745/ #5G #affordability #auspol #Australia #broadband #connectivity #DigitalDivide #DigitalInfrastructure #DigitalSkills #DigitalStrategy #Innovation #InternetAccess #ITUReport #NBN #OnlineInequality #PaulBudde #TechnologyPolicy #telecommunications
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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. 🥱
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Really happy with this week's ep of Vertical Hold: Behind The Tech News. I'm joined by Finder's Angus Kidman and Kotaku AU's David Smith to talk about the whole Blue Tick/Meta Verified Mess, how the NBN is changing plans for Satellite users, Navman exiting the Aussie consumer GPS market and how one small Sydney game dev is making FPS accessible for the deaf. It's a lot to pack into just one show!
(Boosts, subscribes, listens and shares all gratefully accepted)
#NBN #Meta #Twitter #MetaVerified #BlueTick #SocialMedia #Broadband #Gaming #Accessibility
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Open question. Is #routerFreedom possible in Australia?
Has anyone in #Australia been able to run the #NBN (NationalBroadbandNetwork) through devices they own outright, while also using #FOSS firmware such as #OpenWRT.
If so we'd love to know your experience.
How long have you been running it? Is it difficult to maintain? Etc.
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Gasp! I've been threatening to do this for years, decades even, but 🤷♂️
Today I did it. Changed ISPs. It was really easy, despite having to ring #internode to cancel (it's not automagic). I didn't even need to change modem settings!
Back in the day they had heaps of extras, & lower costs, but as ISPs merged, extras got dropped, prices went up. No reason for loyalty. The most recent price rise made them expensive - they wanted more for 50/20 than I'm now paying #Spintel for 100/20.
