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It's a day for Australia as Telstra, one of the main ISPs providing internet access with the newly built NBN network, declares 100Mbps plans will no longer be sold as they cannot be used. This change has been made due to the determination that the NBN cannot deliver the speeds promised. With the original plan in tatters after the Liberal government downgraded the network components to use "Multi Technology Mix" many customers lack the physical components to connect to the NBN to be able to receive the full speeds available. While some of the initial rollout delivered fibre to the premises the Liberal government switched the rollout to use copper and existing cable systems with many customers connect via FTTN leaving a lot to be desired in terms of speed. Farewell 100Mbps, we hardly knew you.
No large scale infrastructure plan survives contact with an incoming government.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 03 2020, @11:46AM (1 child)
Yet they will stay in power because they are the only major party who are at least trying to keep illegal migrants who come by boat out of the country
(Score: 2) by Pav on Wednesday March 04 2020, @04:50AM
When there's full youth employment, and everyone is doing great boat people aren't an issue eg. the Vietnamese and Tamils in the 1970's. Today there's an inequality blowout, and the population are a lot less chill. Crime goes up as the real economy gets worse on a sliding scale... that's the nature of the human animal - we're ALL mere weeks away from criminality and even cannibalism if the deprevation gets bad enough. A nice brown faced safety valve works for the party that enjoys shifting cash to most wealthy (for instance by wasting taxpayer money to boost a couple of corrupt telcos).