In The Australian today the focus is on how the company building the National Broadband Network will be hard-pressed to defend aspects of its network design after the most recent update to the Network Design Rules (NDR). The decision by the government to force NBN to use a lowest cost rollout approach has meant that company finds itself adopting technologies and a network design that will be outdated even before the rollout is completed.
The Australasian Association for Information and Communication Technology (AAICT) has launched the first project activity, the NBN Project Pin Map. Registered users can upload photos and descriptions to the AAICT website and place a pin to show where the photos were taken. Everyone is encouraged to share their experiences with the NBN and to take photos to put on the pin map.
The government took the unusual step of writing to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commision (ACCC) chairman Rod Sims to plead for the 2011 agreement between NBN Co and Telstra to be during the ACCC’s public inquiry into making Final Access Determinations (FADs) for the declared fixed-line services. Is Turnbull another Alan Bond?
NBN Co has slowed down the rollout whilst the new Telstra agreement is finalised. During the lull NBN Co is trying to sort out some of the issues found during the start-up years. In Business Spectator read about the baby steps taken by NBN Co to fix the construction process and pricing structure are welcome news for the telecommunications industry.
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Have you ever wondered what it will be like to have a faster NBN and to find that you still suffer from congestion and cannot get anything done? Well, the Coalition's multi-technology mix NBN appears to be headed in that direction. And there does not appear to be any concern from the company spending $43 billion to build the NBN. In Business Spectator the problems with a lack of capacity and the resulting congestion are discussed.
Labor is getting a caning right now in the NBN debate and many people are wondering why? How can Labor with a winning NBN policy make such a mess of this advantage? You might expect Labor to take their pre-election NBN policy, make a few tweaks to fix glaring problems and hammer away at the Coalition NBN plan to provide Australia with a slower, congested NBN at the same cost as Labor's NBN. But Labor is silent, why?
A review of the NBN Cost-Benefit Analysis technical inputs and description of technical aspects of the NBN is surprising, for all the wrong reasons. The NBN CBA does not provide the answers we need, and fails to help move the NBN debate from its current politically motivated position. In Business Spectator the NBN CBA is discussed from a technical perspective and the result is disappointing.
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The government's multi-technology mix national broadband network has effectively meant there is a fibre freeze in Tasmania and this is the worst possible outcome for a state that is in need of a technology transformation. In Business Spectator Tasmania's NBN fibre freeze is discussed and why there is a need for a rethink on the MTM NBN.
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The assumptions underlying the NBN Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) just don't stack up and no amount of justification will bring the CBA anything more than criticism. The speeches made by NBN Co chairman Ziggy Switkowski and Professor Henry Ergas at the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) business luncheon held in Melbourne provided a valuable insight into the NBN’s new direction and raised a few eyebrows as well.
In Business Spectator the focus turns to Turnbull's NBN headache and how it has grown. Turnbull's effort to doggedly stick to the Coalition's NBN plan in the face of overwhelming evidence that it will harm the nation's interests has brought him back to earth and even his staunchest allies must now see Turnbull as a fall guy for a government with a broadband plan that is increasingly becoming a focus for protest.
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