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Originally Posted by Streets
FTTP is not just about private citizens' ability to download TV shows, FTTP would've brought regional areas up to the same internet standard as capital city CBDs, which would have been a boon for businesses, public services and decentralisation. Instead we are getting inferior FTTN that has nowhere near the speed (especially the crucial upload speed needed for file transfer, videoconferencing etc. that would have been useful in remote locations).
Regional cities would've been just as viable for you to set up a technology business in as a capital city; imagine the growth that that would have brought the local economy instead of it all remaining in Brisbane or Sydney or whatever your major city may be.
Other countries with FTTN are already replacing it with FTTP and this would have been our chance to skip that costly step in the process but now we're going to have to pay for it twice, once now to get FTTN and once in 5-10 years time to upgrade to FTTP when we realise we are lagging behind the rest of the world.
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And I'm not even sure if any upgrade later on from FTTN to FTTP will be at the governments expense. There is info around on the net that indicates home owners/businesses can foot the bill to run fibre from their house to the box at the end of the street should they wish to upgrade.
I'm on ADSL2+ and have trouble streaming standard definition movies with my Apple TV, sometimes it'll stream uninterrupted for a whole movie and at other times it'll buffer every 20 seconds, disgraceful!
This whole NBN scheme sounds very similar to the governments Roof Insulation debacle!