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| Thread ID: 139794 | 2015-06-29 22:00:00 | Interesting - I wonder what the figures are for our "Gigatown"? | decibel (11645) | PC World Chat |
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| 1403913 | 2015-06-29 22:00:00 | AUSTRALIA: Only five want super broadband . Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull argues that the government have got the balance right . Only five consumers have been willing to pay for internet speeds exceeding 100 megabits per second on the National Broadband Network, undermining Labors rhetoric about the demands for super-fast broadband . The Australian can reveal that while the NBN has been rolled out to more than one million homes and businesses, just five consumers are on the package offering 250Mbps downloads and none has taken up a 500Mbps package . The Australian has also been told that while 34 accounts are on the gigabit nation 1000Mbps downloads option, these are not genuine services provided to an end user as a one-gigabit service because they were either ordered in error or are being used for testing by service providers . Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull seized on the figures as a fillip to the Coalitions multi-technology mix model in the face of attacks by Labor that residents and businesses would pay thousands of dollars to connect to fibre under the Coalitions NBN . Under the Coalitions slower, cheaper NBN, a technology mix is used . Under the widely used fibre-to-the-node option, the copper network used for the final few hundred metre¬s to homes . Labor, by contrast, had promised direct fibre to 93 per cent of premises . The Australian, June 28, 2015 |
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| 1403914 | 2015-06-30 00:52:00 | Yeah and thing is having "gigabit" doesn't mean you're gonna get 1000mbps from the US, more than likely it'll be national-only that you're going to get at that sort of speed. Can you imagine an ISP having even just a dozen "Gigatown" connections, and half of them try and use it to maximum during peak times? Never gonna happen :p |
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| 1403915 | 2015-06-30 11:22:00 | give it time | Mirddes (10) | ||
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