Binary Ninja wrote on Sep 20^th, 2010 at 11:07am:



total nonsense on almost every point.

Yes, you'll get it first, and the cities will get the new improved bug free iterations.

Which is exactly what would have happened under the coalition, had Howard been elected - we'd have had another "non-core promise" experience.

Costello would have rolled Howard, and all the priorities would have changed.

I spoke to a colleague who attended an Institute of Australian Directors forum in Canberra last week.
He said a couple of queries about this network came up.

A few public servants who were there didn't give much of an answer and the general mood (replicated all around Canberra so he tells me) is that this Government isn't going to be around in its current form anyway so there is little being done.

The public servants threw up their hands at every question and answered 'we don't know'.

Don't expect too much to get done on the network, of even anything judging by the sounds of what I heard.

http://www.thepoliticalsword.com/post/2010/08/04/Would-Tony-Abbott-really-be-stu...

It was Nick Minchin who said that his broadband was fast enough for him. He could not see why the country should embark on an expensive very fast fibre-to-the-home/business/institution National Broadband Network. So if today’s broadband is good enough for Nick, what on earth are the NBN advocates carrying on about?

As has been the case with other worthy initiatives it has introduced, the Government has not clearly explained to the people just what an NBN would do for this country. This piece is an attempt to fill that gap.

What will the NBN do that current broadband won’t?

Well, it will connect 93 percent of all Australian homes, schools and workplaces with broadband services with speeds up to 100 megabits per second – a 100 times faster than those currently used by many households and businesses, and connect all other premises with next generation wireless (4%) and satellite technologies (3%) that will deliver broadband speeds of 12 megabits per second with average data rates more than 20 times higher than most users of these technologies experience today.

For more details of the NBN, click here.  To see the map of where the NBN and the other technologies will be connected, click here. 



What will the NBN do for us?

For those who download music and video, films and the like, download times will be vastly decreased, minutes instead of hours. Now if that was all the NBN achieved, it could be argued that the value of spending $43 billion on it would be questionable. But, good though these faster speeds are for music lovers and film buffs, it is all the other things that will be achieved that make the expense not just worthwhile, but essential.

The most significant hindrance to the NBN is the paucity of imagination of those who offer an opinion. There are applications of this super-fast technology that have not even been thought of. Time and again inventions have been discounted by the unimaginative, such as the US army general who, early last century, said he couldn’t see a place for the new-fangled airplane in warfare. While watching the first episode of Return to Cranford on ABC TV, it was fascinating to see the resistance of the folk in that small village to the advent of the steam train and a rail line coming to their village. They were not only fearful about its effect, but skeptical about its value too. It reminded me of the comments of Nick Minchin and Tony Abbott, who says he will offer a ‘no frills’ version of broadband, not this flash expensive thing called an NBN.

So let’s leave the unimaginative to their narrow thinking and expand our minds to imagine what the NBN can do, might do.


cont,  with More topics follow link

Health care?
What about education?
Would it help business?
What about local business?
The personal benefits
Where is the NBN at?
Etc....

longweekend- there are numerous articles out there telling why and what a faster internet service will do. Its called research.

we have all told you why ... remote hospitals , remote schooling , internet Tv , gaming , smart appliances , video phones / voip service

and if you look at the chart above you will see it isn't good enough .. technology moves forward .. we cant so we stay behind and lose the benefits of a technological economy ..

but hang on that is the coalition mantra

Binary Ninja wrote on Sep 20^th, 2010 at 11:26am:


we can do all that now. internet TV is probably the only application that wouldnt really work very well. but that is hardly the killer application that justifies a $43B spend.