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Originally Posted by Polyal
Yes but it should have been left to the players in the market to improve. But hey, as mentioned, farmers will get quick p0rn so its all worth it.
No doubt some of the internet in Oz is rubbish, heck even 40mins out of Melb we couldnt get a hard connection (but I think that was the property developers problem). Anyway, we had wireless for a while and my god that was rubbish along with anything else that was telstra based.
There are far more important issues about than the speed of our internet, the market should pay itself if they want quicker internet, not force everyone into it.
Typically the people who need or want massive speeds already have it and pay for it; businesses just claim it as an expense anyway. Your normal family does not require 20MBPS, Im already running multiple external drives, speed is nice but storage is going to be a problem too unless your streaming all the time and then your going to eat your bandwidth pretty quickly.
You will use that base plan of 30GB in no time...200GB is a bit excessive. I cant remember what my connection is at the moment but I know the limit is 100GB, which is heaps, and top speed I ever get is about 800kb/s..which isnt huge but isnt really slow either. WTF do I want with anything more than that?
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You realise that the telephone you grew up with was state (Fed) funded infrastructure, and the electricity too to name but two major projects that took state money to make reality. Rail is another.
Private enterprise inst interested, and thats not simply because FTTH doesnt make money because it might, but because they can make more money from their investment elsewhere, and there is nothing wrong with that, its smart business and law to act in the best interests of shareholders.
Basically, lets say they can make $50 for every $50 invested (so a total of $100 back) off FTTH, or $80 for every $50 invested (so $130 back) from some other investment like fast food for example, they will invest in the fast food because it generates a better return for investors (shareholders). So while a project like the NBN may make money, there are other options to invest money into that would get the nod first. So far some parts of densely populated areas (larger capitals) have been worth the investment and some fast BB has been made available, while regional Aus is just to sparsely populated to warrant PE investing the dollars required to set up the infrastructure, not to mention outer suburbs too. I mean its easy enough to realise its true, its 2011, and PE still hasnt done it.
As stated above, its not porn that will drive the FTTH, although that makes up the bulk of the net up till now, video stores killed off drive-ins, and the FTTH will kill off video stores. Netflix is already big business. This one was ano brainer, and those with imagination and foresight will create much more that most havent even thought of. The potential for use is only so far unrealised due to lack of infrastructure, not imagination of people ready to make money from fast internet.