The company rolling out the National Broadband Network has axed the idea of providing maximum speed plans to more than 300,000 potential customers.

• NBN Co says it has 'killed' plans to provide 100mbps speeds on fixed wireless network
• Bill Morrow says achieving 100mbps would cost "billions and billions of dollars"
• In January, NBN Co said half of fixed wireless customers would be able to access top speeds

NBN Co on Thursday night announced it had dumped plans to provide 100 megabit per second (mbps) speeds on its fixed wireless network.

"We killed it," NBN boss Bill Morrow told a Senate Estimates committee.

Fixed wireless uses mobile phone technology to provide broadband to properties in regional areas.

Mr Morrow said consistently achieving 100mbps would cost "billions and billions of dollars" — a taxpayer spend he described as "outrageous". 

"The economics … [start] to actually break apart to a point where it doesn't make any sense," he said.

"It would just never happen."

By the end of its rollout, the NBN's fixed wireless technology will be available to more than 600,000 customers.

In January this year, the company told Parliament half of those customers would be able to access top speeds.

Mr Morrow defended the backdown, saying, "there's not mass-market demand for 100 [mbps] services".

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-05-25/nbn-boss-dumps-top-speed-for-fixed...

This is utter bullshit. Planning for the future deserves better than this ningnong being in charge of connecting your home to an inferior service because "you don't need it yet"... In our area the NBN has even been degraded to another acronym with a thin hook up mix of co-axial wire using the old Telstra/Foxtel "cable" network that was already saturated ten years ago — and connection is planned for implementation by 2019 if the gods are happy with a sacrifice of a goat's smoked entrails.

Wireless broadband in the bush is draining more money than expected from NBN Co due to take-up in some places being three times higher than projected.

• Fixed wireless congestion is causing increased NBN roll-out costs
• Four out of five houses in some areas have taken up fixed wireless
• The Government hopes a new bill will raise extra money for bush services
  

New information released this week through Senate estimates has revealed delays to upgrades and massive popularity in some fixed wireless areas.

Residents around some towers have driven take-up rates of more than 80 per cent. In 2012, take-up for fixed wireless was predicted to be 23 per cent.

Almost one in ten premises in the NBN roll-out plan — approximately 1 million homes — are on fixed wireless or satellite technology.

NBN Co chief executive Bill Morrow told senators last week that new technology added in order to address congestion "exacerbates" the negative profitability of its bush service.

"It's not about making money in these areas," he said.

"The losses we see in these wireless technology areas are offset by the profits that we make in the city centres."

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-01/nbn-fixed-wireless-congestion-upgr...

This is poor crystal ball predictions from Madam Enbeehen... Under the leaderhip of the Turdy/Malcomlshit government, the NBN predictions have gone from bad to worse, instead of adjusting delivery to increased demand. The system was first designed for 22 million Australians. Simple. Now it's downgraded to supply internet for two dogs and a snail, because the allocation of funds by the Turdy/Malcomlshit was designed to kill off the project's proper potential. Success!

The head of the NBN has blamed gamers for a significant increase in data consumption on its fixed wireless network and said the company was considering throttling back data consumption of “extreme users” during peak periods.

Bill Morrow, the chief executive of the National Broadband Network, appeared before a Senate committee on Monday to answer questions about the rollout of the NBN in rural and regional areas.

He was asked about his plans to deal with significant spikes in data usage on the NBN’s “fixed wireless” network in recent months, particularly during peak times. 

The NBN’s fixed wireless network is used to connect some rural and remote areas to the NBN by transmitting data via radio signals from transmission towers spread out across the country. 

NBN Co was considering introducing a policy of “fair use” for fixed wireless, Morrow said, so heavy users could be throttled back to the same usage as everyone else during busy periods.

“In the fixed wireless there’s a large proportion [of users] that are using terabytes of data ... during the contended period,” he said.

“One of the things we’re evaluating [is] a form of fair use policy to say we will groom these extreme users.”

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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jun/04/grand-theft-data-nbn-...

Bill Morrow isn't fit to run the NBN. He should loose his job... End of game...

NBN Co is adamant its CEO did not blame online gamers for causing congestion on fixed wireless.

• NBN Co statement clarifies chief executive's controversial comments
• It claims no 'blame' was laid by Bill Morrow
• The Minister for Communications backed efforts to manage capacity

The organisation has issued a statement clarifying comments made by chief executive Bill Morrow during a heated exchange with a Labor MP in a parliamentary committee on Monday.

The response follows widespread reporting yesterday of NBN Co's investigation of a 'fair use policy' which would be likely to affect heavy users, and especially gamers.

"Mr Morrow didn't 'blame' online gamers for congestion on the fixed wireless network," the statement, from an NBN Co spokesperson, reads.

"He identified them as an example of a heavy user, which, as he said earlier in the hearing, is not the main cause of congestion.

"The main cause of congestion is concurrency, in addition to higher-than-expected take-up and consumption [across the user base]."

Minister for Communications Mitch Fifield declined to comment on the remarks, but backed NBN Co's effort to manage capacity.

His spokesperson claimed NBN Co was, "prudently planning to manage future demand so that all fixed wireless users can make the most of the available network capacity".

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-05/nbn-co-hits-back-at-gamer-blame-cl...

In 2009, the then Labor government promised a fast National Broadband Network (NBN) with optical fibre cables direct to most homes and businesses.

• Internet data consumption has increased by 20-30 per cent each year
• The average Australian home has 17 devices connected to the internet
• NBN due for completion in 2020
• Fewer than one in four FTTN connections expected to be able to achieve top speeds

Instead, we've ended up with a mix of technologies including optical fibre, copper wires, Hybrid Fibre Coaxial (HFC), fixed wireless and satellite.

Every year the amount of internet data Australians consume increases by between 20 and 30 per cent.

Last year, the average home had 17 devices connected to the internet and that number is expected to more than double in the next three years.

When the NBN is completed next year, it is estimated fewer than one in four of fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) connections will be capable of achieving the top speeds currently offered over the NBN.

So how will the NBN handle our ever-increasing digital appetite?

Read more:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-04-23/what-happened-to-superfast-nbn/11037620

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See also:

http://yourdemocracy.net.au/drupal/node/11793

http://www.yourdemocracy.net.au/drupal/node/29008

http://www.yourdemocracy.net.au/drupal/node/34232

http://www.yourdemocracy.net.au/drupal/node/31828

http://www.yourdemocracy.net.au/drupal/node/26245

and plenty more on this subject where ABBOTT, the turd with a Catholic devious mind was the instigator of the destruction of the NBN to help Uncle Rupe and also to do stupid nasty things to spite Labor... 

DON'T VOTE FOR SCUMMO AND HIS BAND OF TRAITORS. THEY ARE WORSE THAN MALCOLM AND TURDY (ABBOTT).