[LINK] Coalition's FttN network unlikely to start rolling out before 2015

[Jan Whitaker]

At 08:35 AM 18/11/2013, Kim Holburn wrote:
> > The Coalition government's planned Fibre to the Node (FttN) 
> network is unlikely to start rolling out before 2015, potentially 
> delaying its timetable of providing download speeds of between 25 
> and 100 megabits per second by the end of 2016 and 50 to 100 
> megabits per second by 2019.
> >
> > The proposed FttN network will require the installation of 
> approximately 50,000 to 60,000 nodes and a source told Technology 
> Spectator that at best NBN Co could get 200 nodes rolled out a week.
> >
> > With the rollout at scale expected to start around early 2015, it 
> could take NBN Co six years to roll the FttN network out at 200 nodes a week

Gee, maybe it would have been better if Uncle Mal and Co had run an 
engineering and business study before making their promises, too, eh?
Conroy must be laughing his anatomy off about now.

Jan



Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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