This is a comment to Malcom Turnbull’s op-ed in the Australian on April the 14th, but was not able to be posted because the website of the Australian encountered “errors” trying to post it.
Malcolm
You say that The FTTH NBN risks competition from Telstra offering “higher and higher speeds”, don’t confuse people to think they are “higher” Malcolm – you know the speeds of copper are no-where near that of fiber don’t you.
You say that Telstra’s Melbourne network will be 100Mbps, but the truth is they say it will average of 70Mbps up to 100 Mbps downstream and up to 2Mbps upstream.
And you know that Telstra have long been known to over estimate the speeds of users connections don’t you? ..Retailing broadband for a certain price, forcing people into 24 month contract when they know full well that they can never or don’t plan to achieve these speeds. I consider this criminal, but for lack of legislation they are continually allowed to do this.
With the 2Mbps upload speed you know it also means that people will only be sending information at around 1/50th the speed as they can receive it, this means that user’s will be forced into a net consumption of information rather than being able to produce it. Malcolm you need to have a look at the future of the internet, especially where RWW is concerned, RWW means read-write web, and it’s a fact that the internet is interactive, this is not television, which is a good thing. Why should farmers, businesses, IT companies, and general users be limited in the information they can send upstream? This will slow down our economy as it has done already. I know why Telstra wants people to have low upload speeds, and that is simply because of their deals with multiple media outlets who want people as consumers, not producers. This is why we need a nonpartisan government National Broadband Network, who has no secret agendas. YOU JUST CAN’T TRUST TELSTRA.
And you know that Telstra’s planning never quite eventuates the way they say it’s going to, it’s a fact that Telstra make deals with housing estates to supply broadband and telco, and only supply half the ADSL connections that are needed, simply because it’s a monopoly, and they can do it when they want to. Do you know what happens to the other half of customer Malcolm? THEY MISS OUT – and these customers aren’t in the sticks, they are in highly populated areas that I work every day.
And Malcolm, you say that there is competition from wireless, citing the high take-up rate of wireless, as 65, 000. Do you know why people have taken up wireless Malcolm? It’s because they CAN’T GET BROADBAND, I work with these frustrated people every day – they don’t even like wireless, they are forced to get it.
Let me tell you that wireless is no competition to FTTH Malcolm, take HSPA+ which is the bees knees wireless solution it can only provide 42Mbps, and that’s its best possible downlink (remember that lesson Malcolm?) the uplink is terrible, trying to use voip over wireless is like the proverbial “urinating into the wind”.
You must also not that wireless is a much more fragile signal due to its interaction with the landscape, other electrical signals, and solar cycle of all things (who knows what will happen in the future) and that the top speed of wireless drops of quite suddenly whereas fiber, which is digital almost has no degradation comparitively.
And one more thing about wireless is that every few years the specs are going to change and it’s going to need upgrading, thats one thing about fiber to the home, it’s a medium which is almost unlimited in the capacity of information that it can carry.
So no Malcolm, wireless is not competition, its a weak consolation for those who can’t get high speed internet.
And Malcolm, my last point! what is this about building a business? This isn’t about building a business, this is about building a HOME, it doesn’t matter what we pay for it, I trust the Government to find a healthy way of dealing with the figures, but you have to realise that this is something we need, and desperately – we are sitting behind the 8 ball on this, while the rest of the world is whirling past us. We need broadband like we need the national highway, we need it fast, and we need it unadulterated by the corporate world.
WE NEED FAST, NON-CORPORATE NATIONAL BROADBAND NOW!
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This is a comment to Malcom Turnbull’s op-ed in the Australian on April the 14th, but was not able to be posted because the website of the Australian encountered “errors” trying to post it.
Malcolm
You say that The FTTH NBN risks competition from Telstra offering “higher and higher speeds”, don’t confuse people to think they are “higher” Malcolm – you know the speeds of copper are no-where near that of fiber don’t you.
You say that Telstra’s Melbourne network will be 100Mbps, but the truth is they say it will average of 70Mbps up to 100 Mbps downstream and up to 2Mbps upstream.
And you know that Telstra have long been known to over estimate the speeds of users connections don’t you? ..Retailing broadband for a certain price, forcing people into 24 month contract when they know full well that they can never or don’t plan to achieve these speeds. I consider this criminal, but for lack of legislation they are continually allowed to do this.
With the 2Mbps upload speed you know it also means that people will only be sending information at around 1/50th the speed as they can receive it, this means that user’s will be forced into a net consumption of information rather than being able to produce it. Malcolm you need to have a look at the future of the internet, especially where RWW is concerned, RWW means read-write web, and it’s a fact that the internet is interactive, this is not television, which is a good thing. Why should farmers, businesses, IT companies, and general users be limited in the information they can send upstream? This will slow down our economy as it has done already. I know why Telstra wants people to have low upload speeds, and that is simply because of their deals with multiple media outlets who want people as consumers, not producers. This is why we need a nonpartisan government National Broadband Network, who has no secret agendas. YOU JUST CAN’T TRUST TELSTRA.
And you know that Telstra’s planning never quite eventuates the way they say it’s going to, it’s a fact that Telstra make deals with housing estates to supply broadband and telco, and only supply half the ADSL connections that are needed, simply because it’s a monopoly, and they can do it when they want to. Do you know what happens to the other half of customer Malcolm? THEY MISS OUT – and these customers aren’t in the sticks, they are in highly populated areas that I work every day.
And Malcolm, you say that there is competition from wireless, citing the high take-up rate of wireless, as 65, 000. Do you know why people have taken up wireless Malcolm? It’s because they CAN’T GET BROADBAND, I work with these frustrated people every day – they don’t even like wireless, they are forced to get it.
Let me tell you that wireless is no competition to FTTH Malcolm, take HSPA+ which is the bees knees wireless solution it can only provide 42Mbps, and that’s its best possible downlink (remember that lesson Malcolm?) the uplink is terrible, trying to use voip over wireless is like the proverbial “urinating into the wind”.
You must also not that wireless is a much more fragile signal due to its interaction with the landscape, other electrical signals, and solar cycle of all things (who knows what will happen in the future) and that the top speed of wireless drops of quite suddenly whereas fiber, which is digital almost has no degradation comparitively.
And one more thing about wireless is that every few years the specs are going to change and it’s going to need upgrading, thats one thing about fiber to the home, it’s a medium which is almost unlimited in the capacity of information that it can carry.
So no Malcolm, wireless is not competition, its a weak consolation for those who can’t get high speed internet.
And Malcolm, my last point! what is this about building a business? This isn’t about building a business, this is about building a HOME, it doesn’t matter what we pay for it, I trust the Government to find a healthy way of dealing with the figures, but you have to realise that this is something we need, and desperately – we are sitting behind the 8 ball on this, while the rest of the world is whirling past us. We need broadband like we need the national highway, we need it fast, and we need it unadulterated by the corporate world.
WE NEED FAST, NON-CORPORATE NATIONAL BROADBAND NOW!
Tags: NBN
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