Can someone remind me again who it was that implemented this original string and tin cans internet?
Root blame is probably Telstra doing some corrupt dealings with the Liberals so they could sell their copper network to nbn co.
nbn co never would have needed to buy the copper network if they were simply replacing it entirely.
I worked in the service activations and assurance side of nbn co right when FTTN was starting to roll out. Install issues suddenly stopped being “delayed because no one was home” or “lead-in conduit needs replacing” and suddenly had about a dozen different reasons.
For the entire time I worked there, fault volumes for the FTTN network were consistently 10x worse than FTTP. For example, there might be 0.02 faults per 100 active FTTP premises, and 0.2 faults per 100 active FTTN premises.
Edit: though with some more thought on the original point, I think it was majority just the Liberals wanting to do something different in classic oppositional politics.
I’ve heard it said it was done to please Rupert Murdoch, propping up Foxtel’s bottom line by suppressing streaming service uptake.
Malcolm Turnbull on orders of Tony Abbott.
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What the liberals did to the NBN is just criminal. Everybody told them that then FTTN nbn would be outdated and require upgrades the moment that it rolled out but they still did it anyway.
Still not there. So frustrating.
Looks like my suburb is on the list for June 2023 though I’ve got Pentanet nexus so I don’t know if I’d want to jump ship.
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Ooh, nice. My hometown is on the list, so the family I still have up there will finally get FTTP within the next few years.
Those in town will finally have the option to beat the internet speed my parents get out on the farm with Starlink.
Took me about 18 months from my suburb being on the list to having it connected and running. the fibre was run in the street about 12 months before I was able to connect.
Be patient, it will come.
Shit thing is, without paying for an extortionate business connection, the best I can get is 1000/50 or If I pay $200 per month, 250/100 and that’s it. should be 1000/1000 but NBNco was built for profit.
If the government can hold off from selling nbn co as a whole, hopefully we can see wholesale prices stabilise for a while once they reach the FTTP-everywhere point.
Though with our luck, they’ll probably sell it to the lowest bidder sometime shortly after that.
Ive just got it 2 months. I was FTTN up until then but that was only about 18 months. Despite being close to Sydney CBD. There was no fibre put in. It has been there all along and I’ve lived here for over 10 years! Such a wasted opportunity.
only 10 years overdue…
