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NBN sheds jobs as 'death spiral' worsens
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You've got to start saying it's shit, then you underfund it to make it a bit shit. Then you sell it off so a publicly traded corporation run by your mates and donors can 'run it more efficiently'.
Except, we've seen this play out over and over. It never ends well for us, the suckers, oops I mean the consumers.
They also overdid it, nobody wants to buy an NBN that's mostly copper. The way business would run it more efficiently is by just turning off and abandoning areas that need repairs.
That's exactly why Telstra sold their copper network to the NBN in the first place. And Murdoch and Foxtel selling their HFC. Fibre to the home was making them both worth $0. Telstra had done minimal maintenance on copper for years, because they knew what was coming.
Never forgive LNP and in particular Turnbull for creating a scheme to pay out for old, obsolete networks. "Cheaper and sooner". Neither, and technologically and strategically inferior.
The NBN was given a pile of shit to start with. But as soon as it gets close to cleaned up, the vultures will be circling.
@No1 I don't believe any such 'death spiral' exists. Starlink is a last resort due to cost and latency. It's better than a broken cabled feed. 5G suffers from limited area availability and time slice contention when more users are added, as is the case with all wireless systems.
NBN FTTH is an unbeatable value and a total performance beast. @zurohki
Sure, as long as you don't need upload speed. That's apparently a premium business-class feature.
@zurohki You can get 1000/400 if you really need it. Speed costs money, typically $9.00/day (Launtel). The use case for more than 50Mbps upload is limited.
With cloud services pushing their online file storage, remote workers loading and saving files to company systems and video conferencing, the use cases for upload speed are more common than they've ever been. NBN Co have decided to class it as a business feature and price it accordingly.