But if you had a risk register for this project, one of the risks would have to be “politics/politicians”.

Call me “very cautiously optimistic”. I love the concept and I hope it pans out.

I also urge you to have a look at the 60 or so comments on the other blog there is some real good stuff in it. http://www.buddeblog.com.au/analysis-of-the-national-broadband-network-announcement-australia/

Those who want to participate in out (wiki based) Regulators Submission and forgot their passwords, pls let me know

I debate the governments transparency, but we’ll see what we see.

I’m openly critical of the Rudd governments performance on this particularly election promise (about 18 months and counting so far?) but I still recognise the FTTP is a great step forward for this country and will pay it’s own rewards in the long term if it is done right. I just have very serious concerns over Conroy’s ability to deliver on his promise.

Iirc, that isn’t neo-luddite, it’s the fairly common fear of a politicians ability to screw up anything… =)

While the focus is on the applications delivered to individual points such as our home, business, school, etc we have not even contemplated what will be the impact of blanket covering entire cities. What I mean is our home, business, school, etc and ALL space in between.

I wonder what having constant access to highspeed wireless bandwidth, facilitated by optical fibre everywhere, will do to say our phone capability or in car applications (eg. automatic speed limiting, remote diagnosis, remote vechicle management, etc), automatic traffic management for emergency services, security throughout cities and so on…..

Of course we won’t instantly be where our imagination is taking us but frankly it will be a very exciting journey and I am certain that our younger generation will thank those with the vision to make it happen

Piero

The study covered FTTC VDSL, and FTTH in PON and Fiber Point-to-Point (P2P) solutions. FTTB is somewhere in between and had been analysed by them in that study. Of course speeds in FTTC are limited, depending on the line length and some other physical parameters of the subloop between street cabinet and customer home. One could describe that as between 20 and 50 Mbit/s downstream and 5 and 20 Mbit/s upstream if subloop length is less than 1 km. With PON as a bus oriented architecture several (up to 128) end customers share a downstream link with 2,5 Gbit/s and an upstream link with 1,25 Gbit/s, but PON and GPON will move upwards with new standards under development. FTTH is more or less unlimited, just depending on CPE and central switch ports.

FTTH P2P is more future proof and simple in its architecture, but a little bit more expensive than PON. VDSL only is an interim solution for incumbents.

Thus, WIK included lower speeds as well, but the ARPU they used in their study had been the same for all architectures. (The necessary take up rate increased with more expensive infrastructures.)

Paul

you got your cashflows mixed up. The Government loans money (from you or your pension funds preferable) and pays an interest yearly on the bonds for 20-25 years. Which is great for next generations and pension funds. The money is invested in the infrastructure which is hired out to companies who sell services you want to have (Fast Internet e.a.). Interest and depreciation (payback of bonds) is paid out of the income generated. So no taxation is needed at all and you as consumers get a better deal.

Herman

The sooner we get NBN the better, my only concern is value for money (time to market e.g. 8yrs vs Korea 3yrs) and speed (100Mbs vs Korea 1Gbps).

Sure it is being financed with Government bonds but they need to be paid back eventually so it is real long term debt out kids will be taxed (for generations) in order to repay.

Cheers, Pete.