[LINK] NBN Wireless?

[Michael Skeggs mike@bystander.net]

The NBNCo web page has an interview with a customer connected via fixed
wireless that might help:
http://www.nbnco.com.au/blog/connected-to-nbn-fixed-wireless-what-its-like.html?icid=pub:hme:blogs:bod:txt

Key points from what you are saying:
- Optus 3G is inadequate for large take up broadband. They do not own
adequate spectrum to allow many users to connect to a tower at the same
time.
- NBN will be delivered using different technology at better effective
speeds
- 3G/LTE is adequate for mobile data needs. It is a poor cousin of fixed
wireless or fixed line for non-mobile broadband (flaky reception, high
latency etc.)
- As far as whether it is commercial? In the middle of Sydney CBD I can get
5 bars from any of the mobile networks. People still see the value of
higher performance broadband. I suspect in rural areas this will apply even
more.

Regards,
Michael Skeggs

Regards,
Michael Skeggs

On 6 February 2013 14:53, <stephen at melbpc.org.au> wrote:

> Briefly, as one of many Aussies whose country town does not crack the NBN
> required minimum number for cable we will apparently receive NBN wireless.
>
> How this will actually work in practice is a mystery to me, as we do have
> one perfectly splendid Optus tower in town, which is reliably radiating &
> collecting a five-bar power phone-and-data signal. So I wonder what's the
> NBN going to do? Set up data-only resources in competition? Rent existing
> Optus resources, give the same speed data-service, and then, charge more?
>
> How are either of these economically viable or even especially desirable?
>
> Whatever, one does wonder what will happen. Especially as today the good
> Senator claims that NBN services will be faster than metro-centre ADSL2+
>
> So, what will happen, and how, is all a mystery to me. Any Linker advise?
>
> (Alhough I must say, when our Senator claims "this is a quantum leap for
> broadband service" it's a bit of a worry. Quantum Leaps are the SMALLEST
> distance imaginable .. the distance electrons jump from one energy level
> to another when emitting photons of light. So one hopes that's not true)
>
>
> "NBN Co doubles wireless, satellite speeds"
>
> By Josh Taylor | February 5, 2013 -- 20:30 GMT (07:30 AEST)
>
> <www.zdnet.com/au/nbn-co-doubles-wireless-satellite-speeds-7000010872/>
>
> Summary: The maximum download and upload speeds for fixed-wireless and
> satellite services on the National Broadband Network have been more than
> doubled to 25Mbps down and 5Mbps up, the Australian government has
> announced.
>
> Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has announced that the maximum
> download speeds on offer on the fixed-wireless and satellite services on
> the National Broadband Network will be more than doubled from 12 megabits-
> per-second (Mbps) down and 1Mbps up to 25Mbps down and 5Mbps up.
>
> The two services are scheduled to be up and running in 2015, and will
> serve the last seven percent of premises not covered by the NBN fibre
> rollout.
>
> Conroy told ABC's AM program this morning that, following a series of
> tests, NBN Co would offer the 25Mbps/5Mbps service on the fixed wireless
> service in June this year, and on the satellite service once it has
> launched in 2015.
>
> "This is a quantum leap for broadband services in the most remotest areas
> of Australia. It's currently at 12 meg down, 1 meg up. But what we're
> able to confirm now following all the testing is that we'll be deploying
> 25[Mpps] down and 5[Mbps] up for our fixed wireless network," he told AM.
>
> "And what's very exciting is that our satellite network will also be able
> to deliver to the most far-flung Australians a 25 meg download and 5 meg
> upload speed is about the best in the world — a better service than ADSL
> 2+ in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and the metro centres."
>
> Currently, NBN Co has an interim satellite service in place that has a
> maximum of 6Mbps down speed.
>
> As of the end of December 2012, a total of 23,100 are on NBN Co's interim
> satellite service, while 1,000 are connected through the fixed-wireless
> long-term evolution portion of the network.
>
> We will update this story when more details are available
> --
>
> Cheers,
> Stephen
>
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