[LINK] NBNCo Report comment by Butler (Link Digest, Vol 245,

Mon Apr 22 12:20:40 AEST 2013

Phillip writes,

> > > > 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 
> > > 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"
> >
> I do not have AFR access but maybe the text quoted in LINK is the AFR's
> interpretation of figures on page 15 where I can see week 51 take up > 
> rates ranging between 9.5% and 37.5%, and where the week 101 take up
> rates are between 15% and 56%.

Yes, and just to clarify, the quote came from the NBN in a related press
article published on the same day the NBN report was released. Here 'tis:

<http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/459550/nbn_co_launch_1_gigabit_who
lesale_broadband_service_december/>

By Hamish Barwick (Computerworld) 19th April, 2013 10:23

NBN Co has announced that it will be launching a 1 Gigabit wholesale 
broadband service by December 2013 to areas that can access the National 
Broadband Network (NBN).

NBN Co’s wholesale customers – retail service providers (RSPs) – will be 
able to order the service and develop retail plans based on the 1 Gigabit 
product.

According to NBN Co, consumers will not need any additional NBN equipment 
in order to receive the service.

Plans for the 1 Gigabit service and two additional speed tiers were 
contained in NBN Co’s 2010 Corporate Plan.

The speeds and wholesale access prices are outlined below:

Speed tier one

• Download speed: 250 Mbps
• Upload speed: 100 Mbps 
• Wholesale access price per month: $70 

Speed tier two

• Download speed: 500 Mbps
• Upload speed: 200 Mbps
• Wholesale access price: $100

Speed tier three

• Download speed: 1000 Mbps
• Upload speed: 400 Mbps
• Wholesale access price: $150

According to NBN Co's head of product & sales, John Simon, the fibre 
network was built with 1 Gigabit speeds in mind and is capable of 
supporting even higher speeds.

“In Australia, around a third of homes in the fibre footprint have signed 
up to the NBN in neighbourhoods where it’s been up and running for 12 
months,” he said in a statement.

Simon added that a third of NBN fibre users already subscribe to the 
fastest speeds available.

“They’re also downloading around 50 per cent more data than the average 
Australian broadband connection each month and uploading an average of 14 
gigabytes per month.”
--

> An interesting question for the 2 year point might be why the lowest
> curve appears flat while those above 40% are still climbing sharply.
> Context: the NBN data uses a leading digit to identify the state so the
> high and growing take up areas are in NSW (2KIA) and SA (5ALD) while the
> areas with the low take up rates are in TAS (7) where NBNCo had to take
> on an existing network design.
> 
> 
> > > 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.
> >
> 
> A simpler interpretation is that the data in the report is correct (i.e.
> simply taken from network state monitoring totals), and that the NBNCo
> board and staff are just doing their job.
> 
> I have noticed some media analysts reporting a significant and growing
> number of US households becoming disconnected from conventional
> television watching, and explanations are not just related to the age of
> the "kids".
> 
> Perhaps Australian customers given choice (NBN fibre speed profiles are
> enumerated on page 16) are also adjusting their lifestyle in accordance
> with their ISP deal e.g. the 31% of NBN customers @100Mb/s are making use
> of time shifting TV services like the ABC iView and equivalent services?
> This would be a threat to cable TV services and in Australia might trigge
> retaliatory action like Fear-Uncertainty-Doubt from media companies with
> significant legacy assets in print and TV media.
> 
> FWIW in my part of QLD, where the appro 20 year old underground telephone
> twisted pairs and curb side cable patching cabinets are very very very
> unreliable (and come with built in static generators), I cannot imagine
> take up rate being less than 56%.
> 
> 
> > > 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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