An independent study into Australia's NBN

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Andrew & Wendy BlackmoreIn 35 years as a public servant I faithfully enacted so many projects designed principally for (very) short-term political considerations and that had - even at the design stage - an appalling rate of return (if any!). Spending an extra $30bn (at least) just to please Telstra is monstrous. By supporting this study I hope to perhaps help bring the NBN back to economic feasibility. Improved data-flow between business and administrative centres - yes, Faster domestic porn/gaming/movies - no.12y
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Jasmine RussellI'm still gob smacked that it takes a UK tech paper running a kickstart to ask the big questions about the value, purpose and cost efficiency of billion dollar infra projects in .au12y
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Jason Leschnik* A simple Domain would be handy to allow people to tell their friends about it, maybe upload it to something like nbnreport.net or something * When they do the investigation into the usage of the Internet, is it possible to do a proper investigation? Actually doing proper monitoring of volunteers Network usage and not just asking them what they do?12y
John JonesI look forward to a study on the cost of a mixed network and copper network upgrades. looking forward to it ! John Jones https://twitter.com/johnjonesname12y
David ThomasI look forward to an unvarnished, sane view of where the NBN should be heading, and how feasible it is currently. The Snowy Mountains Scheme was a national infrastructure project that everyone agreed was beneficial to Australia's future. I had hoped that the NBN would be regarded similarly.12y
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Doug PalmerHappy to support this. There needs to be some sort of idea of what the NBN is for so that the actual plans can be evaluated. Is it just meant for people in cities to ship movies about or is it meant to ensure that everybody can ship body parts about? In which case differences in access levels may or may not make a difference. Is it meant for real-time manipulation of machinery or is it a content delivery mechanism. In which case latency may or may not make a difference. I'm happy with multiple questions and multiple answers but "but ... but ... infrastructure" doesn't cut it.12y
Andrew ArmstrongAnything to keep the NBN rolling out, the Liberals will wreck it!12y
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Timothy ChambersThis will be good as long as they get some information from industry insiders with expert knowledge and not self interest. It's funny to see Senator Conroy argue for 25Mbps minimum for eHealth video when the TV channel I'm watching him is using <4Mbps. Existing eHealth monitoring and video conferencing can use <6MBps. I would rather an upgrade to the node to get my 3/0.8 Mbps ADSL link upgraded to >15Mbps sooner rather than waiting for another decade to get 50Mbps. Why remove 100Mbps hybrid fibre+coax (Optus/Telstra) and other existing 1Gbps+ capable FTTP (private/corporate/government) with another Fibre network (waste). Most metropolitan hospitals and schools already have FTTP. Large businesses with servers and data centres that need FTTP have FTTP. We need to fill in the gaps not replace existing like for like.12y
Arthur BarrettWill high speed internet really be a future equaliser of health, education and employment? How 'high speed' will it need to be to achieve that? I hope that as a supporter I can ensure the study takes wider socio-economic issues into account rather than purely technical telecommunication issues. eg: how would wide access to high-speed internet in country towns affect those towns and also the 'big cities', particularly in regard to : employment, health, mental health, quality of life, housing affordability etc. eg: if my nieces and nephews don't need to live in Sydney, can they move to and raise their families in Coonabarabran without 'missing out' on jobs or having a 'second class life'. If so it creates less pressure for housing in Sydney and a more vibrant and diverse Australia.12y

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