Australians Without Broadband Call For Changes To NBN | Internet: Experts have blamed Telstra for failing to upgrade creaking infrastructure because the NBN will limit the return it can get on its investment. Meanwhile many of those without broadband face over three years on dialup or expensive and patchy wireless plans as they are not part of the early NBN rollout.At least the Aussies can claim they have active construction underway to build fiber to the premise infrastructure -- albeit not fast enough for areas that must still rely on early 1990s era dial up over twisted copper pair and data capped mobile wireless service. The United States does not: only the travesty of a "national broadband plan" that exists on paper only. There, the wait to get off dial up may take even longer than for the folks down under unless American communities take the initiative to build their own community fiber networks.
Analysis & commentary on America's troubled transition from analog telephone service to digital advanced telecommunications and associated infrastructure deficits.
Wednesday, March 06, 2013
Australians Without Broadband Call For Changes To NBN | Internet
Tuesday, January 01, 2013
Tweed residents angry about broadband service to the area | Northern Star
Tweed residents angry about broadband service to the area | Northern Star: "When we lived in West Tweed on Kennedy Dr we got told we were too far from the interchange."
Mr Vivian was stuck with Telstra's mobile broadband solution.
"The only one we can get reception for in Tweed is Telstra 4G," he said.
"It's $60 for eight gigabytes.
"But it's so slow you might as well not use it sometimes."
This is occurring in Australia. However, the same scenario is likely also playing out in the United States.
Monday, March 02, 2009
Survey: Aussies don't see wireless broadband as viable fixed premises solution
According to iTnews, the survey of 20,000 respondents, conducted between Dec. 31, 2008 and Feb. 1, 2009, found that fewer consider wireless broadband a viable alternative to wireline for fixed premises broadband than they did a year ago. Last year, 43.3 percent of respondents said they would consider wireless broadband to be a "serious option" for home Internet access. This year the number drops to 36.8 percent.
"Consumers are now more educated about the limitations of wireless broadband, whereas a few years ago they might not have actually tried it," says Whirlpool founder Simon Wright. "Also, historically wireless broadband has meant [nomadic] services like Unwired; now it means little USB dongles they buy from the likes of Telstra and Vodafone. These are marketed as a different type of product; and the limitations of 3G are generally better known."
Friday, November 28, 2008
France adopts universal broadband requirement but sets bar too low
France's 512kbs minimum speed requirement is really setting the bar low, perhaps in order to allow French telecoms such as France Telecom to attempt to deliver DSL over long and ancient copper loops commonly found in broadband black holes in the U.S. and elsewhere. That throughput level is already obsolete and is below even the minimal 768kbs "basic" broadband standard adopted by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission earlier this year.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Trouble down under with national broadband program
It's also balking at the government's demand that its infrastructure and retail arms be separated, apparently to discourage the latter from driving the former's broadband deployment strategy as has occured in other nations including the U.S. where telcos concentrate on selling services to more profitable areas while leaving others without broadband access.
Friday, September 26, 2008
Aussies feel pull of broadband black holes
The usual suspect: the limited range ADSL deployed by the big Australian telco, Telstra. Read the item in Adelaide Now.
Friday, March 07, 2008
Australians pull plug on BPL
The case for BPL wasn't helped, either, by rollout costs that would have quickly spiralled due to the need for a repeater station to be installed every kilometre along Australia's tens of thousands of kilometres of transmission lines.
Throw in the need for utilities to manage the telecoms infrastructure and enlist a carrier partner -- one that would also want a cut of the pie -- and it's clear that BPL, despite its promise and technical feasibility, is no longer compelling enough to be attractive for Australian utilities.