Telstra drops nbn™ in it as it wears compo for broadband speed ads

Telstra has all-but-blamed nbn™

The unspeakable in hot pursuit of the uneatable.

Oversubscribinhg Provider

I'm not with Telstra and I get the full 100/40 NBN FTTP Speeds expected and advertised by my provider, all of the time.

Regardless of FTTP or FTTN, if the bandwidth is not enough to service Telstra customers based on their advertised speeds then this is Telstra's responsibility.

Sounds like Telstra has over subscribed their customers and or are also wanting to smear NBN to back up the rubbish decisions Turnbull has made around Australia's broadband future.

Shirley not?

Go hunting on whirlpool there are several threads that point to map on which when yiu over a property gives all sorts of interesting stats including max dl and ul speeds. My results(82 & 38) are slightly lower than predicted but only +- 5% so i amhappy to pay for the 100 rather than the 50 my rsp doesnt sell

This has got absolutely nothing to do with whether Telstra (or any other ISP) buys sufficient or insufficient CVC ("capacity"). It is simply that these particular copper lines - because that is what they are - will NOT physically support the speeds that were sold to their subscribers. The doubters and naysayers can spruik all they want - if Telstra were to buy ten times as much CVC as it needed for this particular subset of subscribers, they would NEVER, EVER get download speeds above 25Mb/s (which is Telstra's default offering). In fact, many of them are incapable of getting even that paltry speed. Spin it any way you want - you cannot make a silk purse from a sow's ear. And the NBN is - putting it politely - more like a sow's turd than its ear!

60 Concurrent Televisions from 100mhz

Amazing technology, FTTH. 60 televisions each showing a different show. Wow.

Trouble is, most households do not have 60 televisions. Indeed very few have more than 6. So unless you are running a data center, these high speeds are just not useful.

The problem was never bandwidth. The problem was availability. To people that did not already have good ADSL or cable. That should have been the original focus, people without decent broadband in the first place.

But instead, the NBN has mainly been built out to people that were already happy with existing service. Hence the complaints about having to cut the copper. And many households will end up just moving to mobile.

The whole NBN fiasco was based on the premise that people wanted very high bandwidths. And that premise is wrong. Once people can run two or three TVs they have enough bandwidth. You do not need 100mb to run Facebook.

Incidentally, few providers provide less than 25mhz, and there is very little price difference for those that do. If 12.5 mhz was offered at 60% of the 25mhz price, it would be the most popular. Heck, if 6mhz was offered at 60% of the 25mhz price it would be the most popular for households without teenage kids.

MTM Not About Saving Money

Who is kidding who, that MTM bullshit had nothing to do with saving money and everything to do with stealing 15 billion dollars of tax payers money and handing it over to their corporate buddies in exchange for wildly biased media promotion of the Liberal Party during elections.

They did not care if the decades old gear would work or not, did not care on bit and now that decades old electronics pushed into overload is failing, straight up dying all over the place. It is going to get much worse and worse for many years before it gets better. People should really be going to prison for this mess.