[LINK] NBN April, and 75%

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Paul Brooks wrote:
> On 23/02/2011 4:21 PM, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
>> On 23/02/2011 2:03 PM, stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:
>>> Mr Quigley said the first release sites on the mainland had received on
>>> average a 75 per cent rate of consent from premises to be connected to
>>> the NBN.
>>>
>>> The highest rate of consent was in Willunga, South Australia with 91 per
>>> cent, but the inner-city Melbourne suburb of Brunswick had only received
>>> 50 per cent consent.
>> per cent of what? The article is mute on that. Has NBN said of what?
> percent of homes in the notified area that had 'opted in' to have the NBN fibre and an
> NBN optical node installed at their house when the installation crews are stringing
> along their street.
<snip>

Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics.

Willunga. Population: 2762 (2006)
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willunga,_South_Australia>

At the 2006 Census, Brunswick had a population of 20,780.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brunswick,_Victoria>

Armidale is a city in the Northern Tablelands, New South
Wales, Australia.[3] Armidale Dumaresq Council had a
population of 19,485 people according to the 2006 census.[1]
It is the administrative centre for the
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armidale,_New_South_Wales>

and for the record, virgin broadband wireless access (via 
Optus)
[and TV reception :-(] was pretty good in Tura Beach, NSW
- presumeably Telstra is also available there.

At the 2006 census, Tura Beach had a population of 2,742
people.[1]
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tura_Beach,_New_South_Wales>

someone else can do the maths of actual connections...

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