NBN Co works to boost fixed-wireless and satellite NBN service speeds

yes when will the new service be their to use,and at what cost will we able to use skype with out problems,could please keep me up to date ron heferen

Umm there appears to be an issue with the maths here.

If one users maximum speed is 12 Mbps right.

And each base station is able to handle 15 users at a time.

Under peak they are expected to get 500kbps.

15 x 500kbps = 7.5 Mbps.

Thats 4.5Mbps less than what one person is suppose to get as a maximum

@ethoscraig: The 500kb/s is busy-hour throughput, not peak speed.

As is quoted in the article: “With the maximum number of people in a cell, if they are streaming the same video at the same time, they are all guaranteed this speed; that is at least five if not ten times more than the busy-hour throughput offered by DSL in metropolitan areas, so it’s a huge step."

As is mentioned, the likelihood of everyone in the cell streaming the same video at the same time is extremely low.

ethoscraig, get used to more propaganda about the NBN. It's a (Labor) government department, and therefor bound to be inefficient and have it's "performance" enhanced by Conroy & Co. Think back to pink batts, BER, Resource Rent Tax, Illegal immigration, etc.

But just imagine how many users would be connected by now if this was a private enterprise, with a government enforced monopoly, and $36 billion to play with! Not forgetting another $11 billion injection to take over all the existing clients of the existing telcos.

does anyone know what the busy-throughput speed guaranteed to all customers on fibre will be?

Taxpayer, private enterprise had fifteen years of greed-driven opportunity to deliver broadband to all Australians, after which a third of Australians still had no broadband at all, and the average received speed of ADSL across those who did was 2.8 Mbps!

Copper-served broadband customers are not being taken off the telcos, either. A BigPond customer on Telstra copper is most probably going to simply become a BigPond customer on NBN fibre, unless a better offer presents from another retail provider, and you surely can't argue against that!

Finally, by agreeing to pay a transfer fee per customer taken off Telstra's monopoly copper, Telstra for its part agreed to make its ducts, pits and exchanges fibre-ready and grant NBNCo access to them for 35 years, saving the taxpayer $7 billion on the $43 billion build cost.

The NBN is in fact Labor's only big-spending policy that makes any sense, especially since the funds borrowed to build it will easily be recouped with interest in wholesale fees, resulting in no cost to taxpayers, who get the benefit of universal fibre infrastructure for the price.

Just get NewSat instead. I'm from Sunbury and I travel north a lot, and even in remote areas, I get good connection esp. for VoIP. Although I've heard that the NBN is giving 100% of Australia access to high-speed broadband. 93% fibre. 7% mix of Fixed Wireless and Satellite

@Dean - it will depend on your ISP, not the NBN.

@Francis Young, no question the telcos failed on providing utopia in broadband, but my point is, they didn't have $36 Billion in free finance, courtesy of the taxpayers, nor were they also given an additional $11 billion to rent $7 billion of pit infrastructure ;-)

None of the Telcos are on my Christmas card list, but they did provide broadband access to more than 90% of Australians, at no cost to the taxpayers, and it gets cheaper every year. Will the NBN rates go down every year? If so, how will they repay the taxpayers their loans of $36B + $11B = $47B ? That's $1 342 million a year,
over 35 years at zero interest. The existing Telcos pay more than that in taxes now, with no taxpayer funding. It just doesn't add up, Francis. That's my point. I am NOT ideologically opposed to the NBN. I welcome faster and cheaper communications as much as anyone, but not at any price.

@Taxpayer: Oh dear. Where to begin?

The NBN isn't getting "$36bn of free finance", they are getting $27bn of Govt finance, on which they will repay 7% "interest". Since it's funded by bonds, which it will repay itself, there is no net cost "to taxpayers" to build the NBN.

The $11bn in patyments to Telstra come out of NBN revenue, and do not add anything whatsoever to the Govt contribution or private debt needs of NBN Co.

Sorry, but essentially every ISP is providing broadband over a network build and funded by the Government. That is, the Telstra (nee Telecom, PMG) network. If the Government hadn't built that network last century, none of the current providers could deliver broadband to anyone. A network, incidentally, that cost more per capita to build than the NBN will.

If you read the NBN business case, you'd see that by 2021, the NBN expects annual revenue of $6bn, well above the $1.3bn you have calculated they require over a 35 year period.

@9 taxpayer, you approvingly claim that "[the telcos] did provide broadband access to more than 90% of Australians, at no cost to the taxpayers, and it gets cheaper every year."

As you presumably know, "the telcos" was in fact one monopolistic CAN operator which seemed to use its position to screw this country blind for many years. You may wish to revise your ardent summation to take that into account. The only reason it's getting cheaper now is because for a number of reasons the competition is starting to bite.

As @10 nbnmyths points out, the funding for NBN will be repaid from operating income, so at the end of the day it will have no effect on "the taxpayers".

@10 nbnmyths, 2021 is ten years away! By then the interest on the cost of the "borrowed" money will have added up significantly. As a reasonably successful business owner, I had to learn very early on that revenue does not equal profit! $6 billion revenue will be reduced by expenses such as salaries, rent, maintenance, etc. IF they achieve an operating profit of $1.3B (to repay the loans & bonds) that is nearly 22% on revenue! I will pay a charity of your choice $1000 if they get even close to that.

History tells us that no government enterprise can ever as efficient as private enterprise. Just ask the Russians... And NASA, who paid $1000 for a $2 hammer.

By the way, the NBN is going to struggle to pay Telstra $11 billion out of their revenue. Several years down the road, and they only have a thousand odd users judging by the press reports.

@11 grumpy, the monopoly of Telstra started to breakdown around the early 1990's, and had effectively ended (apart from the "last mile" copper phone lines) about the time of the Internet being rolled out in the mid-1990's. We are talking about Internet services, aren't we? Since 1998 I have been using iinet as my internet service provider, not Telstra.

But I agree with your sentiments that government monopolies are inefficient, restrictive and generally a very bad thing! That is the very essence of my argument.

@12 Taxpayer, you forgot one thing when happily claiming that "no government enterprise can ever (sic) as efficient as private enterprise." In the case of national comms infrastructure, a retail monopoly will always act as a monopoly always does. That is the case just as much if it is one of your beloved private monopolies.

You are very careful not to mention that NBN will be a neutral platform for all service providers to use in actively competing for our business on service and price. So for the first time ever, there will be equal opportunities for any company to participate.

And you claim that the Telstra monopoly started to break down in the early 1990's (sic). Actually it was PMG or TA up to that time, and if you believe that a change of name removed all the old monopoly group-think, you may not have talked to anybody who has tried to compete with the 300kg gorilla since then, or has had to put up with the poor service.

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