[LINK] The experts agree, Turnbull’s NBN is ‘a national tragedy’

[Scott Howard]

>From a quick glance at that article, the only question seems to be whether
the author is deliberately mis-representing his source or if he's just
misreading them.  My guess is the former, but I'm willing to give him the
benefit of the doubt...

His referenced source states that "*Over the year, the number of
fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) subscriptions surpassed DSL*", which he has
turned into "... *exceeding all copper (ADSL and FTTN) connections (300
million, in total)*". However this fails to take into account other
technologies like HFC which account for a massive number of FTTN
deployments.  The original source clearly stated it was referring to DSL
technologies only.

He also happily quotes another source that "*FTTP connections increased by
77% in 2016*" but fails to point out that 89%of the growth in the past 6
months had come from a single country - China.  (Which doesn't make his
quote wrong, but does obviously change the implied conclusion significantly)

His claim that "*On the other hand, network operators such as Verizon and
AT&T are taking up some of the FTTP slack left by Google.*" is interesting,
given that Verizon has just started deploying FTTP in Boston - the first
city it's added in around 7 years! (AT&T on the other hand is actually
doing some FTTP, but they are starting from a base of zero)

I stopped reading at that point...

  Scott





On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 9:04 PM, David Boxall <linkdb at boxall.name> wrote:

> On 10/09/2017 11:52 AM, Scott Howard wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 6:02 PM, David Boxall <linkdb at boxall.name <mailto:
>> linkdb at boxall.name>>wrote:
>>
>>         Globally, the majority of connections are now through FTTP.
>>
>>
>> I presume Mr Tucker has numbers to back that up? ...
>>
>> The article referenced by the New Daily is at:
> <http://telsoc.org/ajtde/2017-03-v5-n1/a94>
>
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