Insight: Morrow is misleading us about America’s gigabit FTTP appetite

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  1. “That narrative is all about re-using existing infrastructure.”

    Only if you don’t have to buy it! At that point its not really existing any more than stuff you build from scratch is!

  2. it really pisses me off when Liberal appointed partisan hacks like Morrow spout BS like “customers did not use it yet” and imply there are no apps that can use Gigabit FTTP when the fact is Gig Internet allows for multiple simultaneous apps and users and massively enhanced productivity due to tasks being far far quicker to complete.

    It’s just typical of the whole partisan LibTroll argument – they prolly made the same argument when paved highways between states were proposed!

    • As I’ve said before, how long will it be before Morrow’s statements will legally be required to be followed with:

      “Spoken by B.Morrow. This message is authorised by the Liberal Party, Canberra.”

    • it really pisses me off when Liberal appointed partisan hacks like Morrow spout BS like “customers did not use it yet” and imply there are no apps that can use Gigabit FTTP when the fact is Gig Internet allows for multiple simultaneous apps and users and massively enhanced productivity due to tasks being far far quicker to complete.

      The other thing that gets me about that is there are organisations that are already using 1gig, and even looking at the next step of 10gig, so folks do get to see the difference it makes. But when you try and tell them, they say you don’t need it to put you footy tipping on, why should Australia pay for your entertainment or some other bull shit equally as disingenuous.

      • “The other thing that gets me about that is there are organisations that are already using 1gig, and even looking at the next step of 10gig, so folks do get to see the difference it makes. But when you try and tell them, they say you don’t need it to put you footy tipping on, why should Australia pay for your entertainment or some other bull shit equally as disingenuous.”

        Don’t forget the good old “show me an application that can use 100Mbit/1000Mbit but you can’t talk about multiple users using the connection at the same time, it must be a single application otherwise there is “no point” in building it”.

      • Back in the late 90’s the same thing was being asked – “show me something that needs more than 56k dialup”. Then it was 256k, 1 Mbps, and so on.

        We never needed anything faster, so lets just go back to dialup.

  3. Maybe the NBN team should have gone to Singapore where they have just released 10 gigabit residential speeds, surely business in the USA would have ample reason to use gigabit speeds and eventually residential gigabit will be taken up by the well healed and middle income groups. The point of providing gigabit speeds is so the wholesaler stops being the barrier to future development. The reason the government wants to split Telstra is because Telstra was holding Australian Comms back due to a lack of investment, now the NBN is doing it.

  4. Maybe the NBN team should have gone to Singapore where they have just released 10 gigabit residential speeds

    I’m going to hazard a guess and say thats exactly why the avoided it (and never talk about Singapore) :o)

  5. A buzz is starting to form around 1Gbps connections. It could soon enter the public consciousness in a way that would make it unstoppable. Something people have to have, like an iPhone. I think we’re on our way to that.

    • “15Mbps is good enough for anyone, regardless of what they want to do” – Reality – 2014

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