The NBN’s huge fixed costs require that nearly every Australian household subscribe to the network in order for it to be financially viable. However, as more homes abandon the NBN in favour of wireless options, including 5G mobile and Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet system, the NBN’s fixed expenses are shared across a diminishing subscriber
  • Tristaniopsis@aussie.zone
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    9 months ago

    I saw guys running trace into all the conduit in my neighbourhood, and they said it would be a couple months til we could all get fibre to the house.

    2 years later… sweet fuck all.

  • Bluetreefrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    NBN switched half of my town to fixed wireless at a higher cost than FTTN just to get ‘bums on seats’ to make coalition pollies look good/less bad.

    Let me put that another way.

    I got a worse service, at a higher cost to the government, AND a higher cost to me, just so it could happen 6 months earlier.

    I would have been happy to wait, and now FTTP is off the table for me.

    Fuck 'em.

    • rainynight65@feddit.de
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      9 months ago

      I moved to an area in 2017 that was slated for Fixed Wireless by mid-2020. At the time, ‘interim NBN satellite service’ was available.

      The rollout date changed to 2019 - then 2018. Then we were deleted off the rollout plan. No explanation, nothing. If you sign up for NBN in our area, you get offered SkyMuster (which, from personal experience using it for two years, is trash).

  • SamuraiBeandog@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    [Starlink] was released in Australia in 2021 and offers unlimited data for $139 per month plus a hardware cost of roughly $599, with speeds comparable to the NBN’s 100-megabit plans.

    Why the fuck would people be swapping to this when it is an extra $40-$50 a month for “comparable” speeds?! This article obviously has an agenda.

    • rainynight65@feddit.de
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      9 months ago

      Not everyone who is on NBN can get a 100Mbit plan. Many people who are not on fibre struggle with unreliable service. And if you’re like me where the only ‘NBN’ available to you is SkyMuster, and 4G speeds and reliability have been deteriorating over the past few years, and there’s no 5G in sight…

      (Full disclosure: I’ve been on Starlink for almost two years now. Where I live, it is the only way to get usable internet service. If there ever is an adequate alternative option for me, I’ll swap in a heartbeat.)