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The whole NBN has been a joke from the beginning. The roll-out delays for what was originally a 100mbps fibre network that is now supposedly going to offer 1gbp

The whole NBN has been a joke from the beginning. The roll-out delays for what was originally a 100mbps fibre network that is now supposedly going to offer 1gbps speeds conveniently announced right around the time Quigley is about to be grilled in parliament over the delays and so close to an election it looks like Labor will be losing in a landslide. While the prospect of 1gbps speeds sounds great as a developer, the very fact those speeds will only be affordable to businesses at a cost of what looks like could be close to the AUD $200 per month mark initially and no doubt rise with minuscule bandwidth provided for the cost. The reason current Internet offerings in Australia are so expensive is because of the small number of cables that connect us to the rest of the world and monopoly of our limited selection of ISP's, are they planning on laying more deep-sea cables to handle the increased load? Will the high-speeds only apply to Australian content like Optus's fraudulent high-speed 100mbps addon pack promises for cable subscribers which only could promise close to those speeds for Australian content, not content from overseas. On the outside this looks like a Godsend for Australia and while it undoubtedly is in some aspects as we saw with the rise of ADSL in the early 2000's, the project has been poorly managed from the start and this sounds like a stunt more-so than a reality based on what we've seen so far. Having said that, I would be more than happy with 100mbps speeds compared to the 20mbps connection I currently have which costs me $75 per month through Optus Cable. And overall the premise and vision for the NBN is still better than the archaic coalition "high-speed" network plans they have of their own.

jacques_chester 14y ago
The odds that a project of this magnitude and complexity would be done on time and budget were basically zero. But it's very hard to tell what could have been better because of the Commercial-in-Confidence veil. Quigley is not an idiot; he's a smart, well-educated bloke with decades of telco experience. He had no control over the schedule -- Treasury (remember those guys? they're the ones who said that the European carbon price would continue rising to hit $29 by 2015) pretty much drew up an estimate for a press conference and that's what got chucked over the wall. In Quigley's position I'm pretty sure anyone would have struggled to make it work.

jacques_chester 14y ago

The odds that a project of this magnitude and complexity would be done on time and budget were basically zero. But it's very hard to tell what could have been better because of the Commercial-in-Confidence veil. Quigley is not an idiot; he's a smart, well-educated bloke with decades of telco experience. He had no control over the schedule -- Treasury (remember those guys? they're the ones who said that the European carbon price would continue rising to hit $29 by 2015) pretty much drew up an estimate for a press conference and that's what got chucked over the wall. In Quigley's position I'm pretty sure anyone would have struggled to make it work.