[LINK] NBN spin

[David Boxall]

Our government (via nbn™) is looking increasingly desperate.
http://www.bellingencourier.com.au/story/4811850/nbn-responds-to-last-weeks-letter/
The spin in that response is ... about par for the course. Carefully 
cherry-picked statistics and factoids that present a deceitful picture.

I'll concentrate on one:
"The Fixed Wireless network has the capability of delivering Gigabit 
speeds as proven through recent trials in country Victoria."
That test used (IIRC) seven user-channels and three W-NTDs in parallel. 
For perspective, I quote from the NBN design rules (page 41):
"The maximum bandwidth planned for the Microwave Hub Site back to a FAN 
site is 900Mbps, allowing for the aggregation of up to 8 eNodeBs, with a 
maximum of 2640 End Users."
So, up to 900 Mb/s, shared between up to 2,640 premises. In case you 
missed it, 900 Mb/s is less than 1 Gb/s - and it's shared by the better 
part of 3,000 users!
http://www.nbnco.com.au/content/dam/nbnco2/documents/network-design-rules.pdf

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                                 |  it's fake government.
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