I know it’s not popular to admit this but I am a relatively satisfied NBN customer.
My shiny new NBN was perfect for around three months and my router proudly beamed without fail for three months. That’s when the drop-outs started. The net and VOIP delivered fixed line phone services would unexpectedly stop. More often than not it was for a couple of minutes, sometimes for a couple of hours although to be fair this was rare. The drop-outs were occurring a dozen times a day or more.
Then the blame game commenced. Telstra advised the dropouts were due to errors made by NBN in installation. NBN said it was Telstra. Technicians of both persuasions were dispatched to my home, to the node and God knows where else but still the drop-outs occurred.
While Telstra didn’t let on, the drop-outs almost certainly were down to it, purchasing bandwidth inadequate for its customers. Just as easily I could lay the blame at NBN’s wholesale pricing model which it says it is fixing.
After several gruelling hours on the telephone the problems were solved. Telstra initially billed me for the technician call out fees but after some abrupt instruction from me, apologies were issued and the charges withdrawn. Ultimately two month’s worth of broadband was credited from my account to boot.
Full column here.
It’s intriguing that Michaelia Cash claims that her staffer was tipped about the AFP raid by a “media organisation”.
How did the organisation find out about it?
The AFP needs to get to the bottom of who knew what when.
If it turns out that Cash knew that the media was going to be at the raid, she should resign for misleading the Senate.
What a snafu.
That’s the unknown. Where the original leak came from. Was it the ROC? The AFP?
Our house won’t get NBN until next year. I’m not so fussed, as the 1 Mbps we’re getting now is fine for our purposes.
Still, one does get the sense that neither Labor or the Libs had/have any clue about service delivery.
M.Cash is a disgrace and must resign. she epitomises the dishonesty of the coalition.
She won’t resign Dismayed, they’ll run cover for her & blame a staffer for the media tip-off before those raids. That’s how the Libs roll.
Wasn’t she the same MP caught investment property shopping on taxpayer travel rorts?
I wasn’t aware she still had a job until I saw her screaming in QT the other day. It appears the Fibs are unravelling bigtime.
She had a property right next door to her exiting property ‘that I knew nothing about’……such a liar.
Don’t think it was Cash , Bella. You may be thinking of Sussan Ley, the Health Minister at the time.
Thanks & you’re right Carl, it was Susan Ley.
I guess with so many politicians caught rorting the system on all sides they’ve kinda become interchangeable to me. 🐖
Best regards mate.
Cash was naïve to defend her staff so strongly but there is a more important question in this debacle. Who at the AFP leaked the information to the press and what was their motivation?
We can’t say it was from the AFP. It may have come from the ROC. It couldn’t have come from anywhere else on my reading.
It’s possible that it came from the ROC but although I’m sure they would have been aware of the fact a “raid” would take place I’d be surprised if they knew the exact timing. I would have thought that would be an AFP operational issue.
My internet was down earlier and I was unable to present another example of this disgracefully deliberately dishonest government. Here we have Frydenberg directing the outcomes of modelling to be done. That is before we find out all major bodies The energy and environment department had no input, and neither did any of the agencies involved in climate and renewable energy development – the Climate Change Authority, ARENA and the Clean Energy Regulator were excluded but the business council were part of the “Energy Security Board” work on the farcical “NEG’
“The ESB has been asked to present modelling to the COAG energy council within a few weeks, but in the letter sent by energy minister Josh Frydenberg, the ESB was told to restrict its modelling to only one specified short term target, and then assume emissions would “flatline” after that.” No modelling exists to date. FN Disgraceful government.
http://reneweconomy.com.au/esb-told-to-ignore-climate-as-lobby-groups-muscle-in-on-policy-54636/
I tried posting earlier but the Telstra network was down.
who said Telstra was useless.
Still wont stop me from highlighting your ignorance
Your arrogance knows no bounds.
I and many others wait for the day when you can actually comment on a subject before being drip fed from GetUp.
Having an original thought would probably overload all your synapses. ( just so you know what I am talking about here is a link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synapse )
Anybody who has the need to comment on a blog that he is sitting in the Qantas club has some fairly serious self-image problems – but that is pretty obvious from most of your efforts.
Oooh! Touchy.
Wind ’em up Dismayed.
Every cloud has a silver lining…
Like all cons you would not want someone using logic and facts to distort your usual misinformation. Milton your head must be eternally hung in shame, that explains why you cant see what is going on in the world. No Surprises.
Judging by the pic of you in the OZ, not only satisfied but possibly slightly smug! Can’t say i’m overly impressed with my speeds but i’m certainly not speaking to any bastard on the phone. That’s my wife’s job.
And people can blame who they choose but for me it’s aimed firmly at that clown Rudd. He’s what started it.
I like my infrastructure in the shape of ports, fast trains etc.
The Carrier Pigeon could yet make a reappearance, Mr Insider. Abbott and Turnbull have royally routed it imho. Now the National Broadband Network Company (NBN) is trialling cheaper and less intrusive technology to take fibre to the driveway of homes, in a bid to divert criticism the mixed rollout is creating a digital divide in Australia. The technology known as fibre-to-the-curb (FTTC) is a less costly alternative to fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) connections. The “Patchwork Quilt” continues and we the Customer suffer. Thank god Turnbull is not in charge of designing a Moon Rocket or it would be known as the “Death Capsule”.
http://tinyurl.com/y8u86syu
Back in June 2013 Abbott said their new broadband policy was one which would see the NBN ‘scaled back’ to a fibre to the node network in most areas currently slated to get fibre to the premises.
“We have a strong and credible broadband policy because the man who has devised it, the man who will implement it virtually invented the internet in this country. Thank-you so much Malcolm Turnbull.”
How’s that working out for you Tony?
FTTP was dropped by these dinosaurs, not the Labor party so again they have lied to shift the blame.
Let their reign of ineptitude be over soon. Please.
The whole problem as I see it was the idea that the NBN would be an infrastructure company that would then be fattened up and privatised. Therein lies the issue Krudd the Dudd and Goose obsessed with “balancing the budget” dream’t up this abortion.
Privatisation has failed, the sooner we face this essential truth and start nationalising or infrastructure (ideally without compensation) the better.
I can’t complain, upload 84.11 and download 37.55.
Fastest I’ve had on upload was 94.04 and there are four computer users in this house, it comes through the Foxtel upstairs so we’ve had to reverse cable inside as the Optus broadband/router were downstairs in the office.
We go through amaysim and have had no problems so far, although the Foxtel dropping out wasn’t a problem when we had Optus broadband it will be if Telstra’s down in the future.
Download 25 and upload 5 for me, Tracy. And that’s perfectly adequate. I have Telstra FTTP. Never had a problem from Day 1. Took four sets of different contractors,each doing their own bit, at the time. And they all arrived when expected! First lot came and assessed, second lot took fibre from pole to box on desired spot on external wall, third lot drilled through solid brick wall and installed internal box – and fourth lot, Telstra, came and connected up. That’s when I began to realise that nationwide FTTP on every single house was sheer fantasy. The Telstra man laughed – and agreed. Could pay more and have 100mbs download, but really don’t need it. And that’s the thing. The majority of household users don’t need superfast.
IMO, the way the NBN was devised by the Rudd government is the basis of the disaster. The fix is a mess and was probably always going to be a mess, whichever govt was in power
– because FTTP rollout nationwide was going to take forever the haphazard way it was being done.
NZ is a very much smaller country remember. And it seems they had a properly thought out installation plan – which helps!
How much a month Tracey?
$90 per month for 100 Mbps, sufficient for both business and personal needs and only $10 more than what we were paying for Optus.
Boa, amaysim sent us the modem and a chappie came round connected up the bits and pieces to the Foxtel box and away we went.
Upload at the moment 86.53 and down 36.46, it’s pretty stable.
Good speeds Tracy. Must be lightening fast! Great if you really need it.
My installation didn’t cost me a single cent either – because they were really trying hard to persuade reluctant residents to take it up. No wonder it’s a financial disaster.
That’s brilliant.
I will need to get off the proverbial and set up my own email accounts – I have been with Optus for over 20 years now and the current Optus one is everywhere.
Not on the NBN but on a fast deteriorating Optus Cable Connection.
The only company in Australia that had the technical expertise to install a complex beast like the NBN was Telstra. They were not allowed to go near it and their technical expertise in fixed line telecommunications has been emasculated along with the rest of the country.
One monopoly has been replaced by another and somehow it is going to be different?
Never let Canberra get involved with anything – they could not organize sexual gratification in a house of ill repute.
The only thing that separates us from third world countries is our ability to borrow money and pay ourselves piles of it so that we think we are better off.
Have to agree with relation to the federal government. Everything they touch becomes expensive, dysfunctional and ludicrously complicated.
And it’s no better under this mob than the last. As stated elsewhere, I feel like a total fool for voting Liberal in 2013 on the now-recognisably daffy assumption that smaller government and an end to the Nanny State might be at hand.
Problem is, there’s no alternative that won’t be as bad or worse.
We haven’t had anarchy so why not give that a trot out.