[LINK] NBNCo Report

[Richard]

Noel,

Regarding the 31 GB download average. That's the ABS data, which is 
collected from ISPs. It's not some NBN invention.

What's the evidence that NBN Co is overestimating its signon rate?

RC

On 21/04/13 11:55 AM, Noel Butler wrote:
> On Sat, 2013-04-20 at 16:04 +0000, stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:
>
>>> The latest NBN Co Report (April 19) may be of interest ..
>>>
>>> <http://www.afr.com/rw/2009-2014/AFR/2013/04/18/Photos/e2aabd80-a87f-11e2-
>>> 81a8-eea54a862473_NBN%20Co%20Report%20to%20Parliamentary%20Committee.pdf>
>>   
>>
>> "Around a third of homes in the fibre footprint have signed up to the NBN
>> in neighbourhoods where its been up and running for 12 months ... a third
>
> about a third, can be read as around 30%, and from what I can gather
> thats a wild over estimation, but all businesses  "talk themselves up"
>
>
>> of NBN fibre users subscribe to the fastest speeds available, and they are
>> downloading around 50 percent more data (47 GB) than an average Australian
>
> Just goes to show, the increase is to be expected in the novelty period,
> same when 300mb a  month was average for dialup, 3 GB was average for
> cable, and I doubt the 31GB for DSL is even real, unless your a warez
> kid, because the average DSL used to be around 10-15GB, so more NBN
> fictitious inflations, but I guess all the kids screaming for NBN are
> mostly all pirates anyway.
>
>
>> broadband connection each month (31 GB) also uploading an average of 14 GB
>> per month."
>>
> Of course, now the kids can file share much easier and get higher
> rankings on p2p networks because of the faster uploads, but we all knew
> that would happen.
>
>
>
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