[LINK] Link Digest, Vol 290, Issue 19

Mon Jan 30 12:03:37 AEDT 2017

NBN takeup is slow. IIRC <40% of premises passed migrate in the first few
months after a suburb goes live.

Internet Australia has called on NBN to improve its marketing so that the
takeup rate improves and we can march forward into the bold internet future
it thinks awaits us all, slow speeds notwithstanding.

nbn tends not to hit back at IA, but off the record quite sensibly (IMHO)
points out that five years ago we were told that VoD would need FTTP at
100Mbps. And now Netflix et all are doing it at 3.5Mbps ...

On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 12:00 PM, <link-request at mailman.anu.edu.au> wrote:

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>    1. Re: NBN ads (David Boxall)
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>    3. NBN in the Kimberley (or not) (David Boxall)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 13:40:04 +1100
> From: David Boxall <linkdb at boxall.name>
> To: link at mailman.anu.edu.au
> Subject: Re: [LINK] NBN ads
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> On 29/01/2017 11:39 AM, Jan Whitaker wrote:
> >...
> > Question: why does a monopoly essentially public utility need to
> advertise at all?
> > ...
> The utility doesn't need to advertise. Our government needs them to
> advertise. It's called propaganda.
>
> <RANT>
> The sad fact is it's an almighty cock-up. Even if they manage to
> "finish" what they've planned, it's unlikely to meet current needs, let
> alone the exponentially-increasing demand. Then they'll try to find a
> buyer and discover that the market value of what they've built is about
> a quarter of what it cost to build.
>
> Changes that they made to the network architecture will make the
> infrastructure so unstable and unreliable that a future government will
> have to spend more fixing it than it would have cost to do it right in
> the first place.
> <http://david.boxall.id.au/201604/#Wreckingthefoundations>
> </RANT>
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> --
> David Boxall                         | "Cheer up" they said.
>                                       | "Things could be worse."
> http://david.boxall.id.au            | So I cheered up and,
>                                       | Sure enough, things got worse.
>                                       |              --Murphy's musing
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>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 14:19:20 +1000
> From: Andy Farkas <andyf at andyit.com.au>
> To: link at mailman.anu.edu.au
> Subject: Re: [LINK] NBN ads
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> On 29/01/2017 10:39, Jan Whitaker wrote:
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> > Question: why does a monopoly essentially public utility need to
> advertise at all?
> >
>
> Do you not remember my little rant last month?
>
>   http://mailman.anu.edu.au/pipermail/link/2016-December/104352.html
>
> $20m in ads for Jan-Sep 2016.
>
> Is MSM interested in holding them to account?  Nope. Murdoch.
>
> The announcement that they're hoping the rollout will reach 50% of
> premises by June this year is another fudging of numbers:
>
>   http://www.itwire.com/telecoms-and-nbn/76472-nbn-
> rollout-progress-a-?pyrrhic-victory?-says-patton.html
>
> "NBN Co has set a target of a total footprint of 5.4 million homes and
> businesses to be connected to the NBN by 30 June."
>
> Umm, there were 12 million premises at last count....
>
> -andyf
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> Message: 3
> Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2017 21:08:34 +1100
> From: David Boxall <linkdb at boxall.name>
> To: Link <link at anu.edu.au>
> Subject: [LINK] NBN in the Kimberley (or not)
> Message-ID: <cf2b6012-bef0-04c1-b27f-710f72fcdfb4 at boxall.name>
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> Hi all,
>
> For those who don't know, the NBN Interim Satellite Service (ISS) is to
> be discontinued on 28 February. The satellite is nearing end-of-life and
> that's when the contract ends. ISS customers are (were) to be given
> priority for transfer to the Sky Muster Long-Term Satellite Service (LTSS).
>
> A Kimberley-region user reports that their LTSS installation has been
> postponed four times since November. It's now scheduled for the end of
> March. A month without Internet (assuming the installation actually
> happens then) is not good for business (or anything else) in this day
> and age. Another user in the same area reports:
> > As far as I know no one in the Kimberley in a remote area has received
> > Skymuster. We are given an install date several months in advance only
> > for it to be cancelled a day before; so in essence we are being lied
> > to as the logistics to install Skymuster are simple not in place. In
> > other words, the technicians and dishes to be installed aren't even
> > here yet. NBN verbally admitted as much in December last year.
> > Multiple customers who all want the new service in the same boat.
> <https://www.facebook.com/groups/BIRRR/permalink/623163697892321/>
>
> --
> David Boxall                    |  In a hierarchical organization,
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> http://david.boxall.id.au       |  the greater the confusion.
>                                  | --Dow's Law.
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> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 09:01:20 +1100
> From: Tom Worthington <tom.worthington at tomw.net.au>
> To: link at mailman.anu.edu.au
> Subject: Re: [LINK] NBN ads
> Message-ID: <9926e0f1-f411-8764-96bf-691eaf2f1632 at tomw.net.au>
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> On 29/01/17 11:39, Jan Whitaker wrote:
>
> > Anyone else noticing the gen nbn ads all over the place? ...
>
> The "It's Tine for Gen NBN" ad is at: https://youtu.be/kQX47NOSsb8
>
> The ad looks like one from the fictional "Nation Building Authority," in
> the ABC TV comedy Utopia:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_(Australian_TV_series)
>
> Some parts, such as tele-medicine and tele-work are reasonably
> realistic. But I am not sure how the NBN connects to a submarine. Also
> students sitting in dark room staring mesmerized at a large screen is a
> good form of education.
>
> The ending has kids on bikes cycling up to a chain link fence to watch a
> space launch. That makes no sense, as there are no plans to launch any
> NBN satellites from Australia. The second and last of the two US made
> NBN satellites were launched on European rockets from French Guiana last
> year.
>
> What is NBN trying to tell us: they are in charge of Australia's tech
> future and the citizens need to keep back behind the barriers and watch?
>
>
> Officially, the message is:
>
> "We?re part of a new generation, a growing group of Australians
> redefining how the world sees them. It?s time for gen nbn?. Visit
> nbn.com.au/gennbn
>
> The nbn? network is Australia?s broadband network, delivering the
> technology for all Australians to realise their dreams and discover new
> possibilities in a connected world."
>
>
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