

I beg to differ. Optus now offers unlimited cable for $99, a far better price than Telstra, plus you've got ADSL2+ bundles not even touching $100 now and at the very least giving us 300GB+ in quotas. So Optus offer unlimited mobile data for $99/month? Oh wait....you said cable and we were talking about mobile data quotas...unlimited fixed line quotas have been around for a long time now. Mobile quotas are a long way off going unlimited or being even close to viable. I still maintain that the biggest advantages of FTTH will be ultra low latency. I would argue it is the upload speeds. Downloads are nice to had for using services like Netflix, Stan, etc. But uploads will really open up the possibilities for home business and work from home scenarios that are not possible right now. Iv had cable broadband for the past 10 years. Too bad government decided to get involved in it and now most people have to wait decades for a decent connection The old "I have decent Internet, therefore everyone else needs to be quiet argument. Almost any new suburb will not have Foxtel cable available. that will be obsolete by the time it's rolled out The funny thing about fibre is that it won't go obsolete. Upgrades very cheap and easy to make. You don't have to relay the infrastructure, you just upgrade the nodes at each end of the line, similar to upgrading a NIC from 100mbit to gigabit. not to mention fully subsidized via taxpayers. Yeah I hear you buddy...just like:



- Those joint strike fighters we just increased our commitment to. They're obsolete and the Chinese and Russians have built better armed, faster, cheaper and more manoeuvrable options.

- Those Collins-class submarines that are widely considered duds. But don't worry...they've just got those sort of working and the govt is putting out to tender to have them replaced with a bunch of new submarines we don't need.



You would be surprised what the govt. pisses away money doing in your name if you actually paid attention. Where as before the private sector was slowly rolling out broadband infrastructure as demand grew but stopped once the government signaled they may be getting involved. Show me some sources for that? The private sector may have been rolling out some very small pockets of business opportunity at best and that's it. I tried to get Telstra to put cable in my street (the street behind me has it) but they said that because Foxtel satellite and my 5Mbit ADSL was available there isn't any point because I already had awesome Internet by their standards.



last edited by Twisted at 08:34:23 31/Jan/15 So Optus offer unlimited mobile data for $99/month? Oh wait....you said cable and we were talking about mobile data quotas...unlimited fixed line quotas have been around for a long time now. Mobile quotas are a long way off going unlimited or being even close to viable.I would argue it is the upload speeds. Downloads are nice to had for using services like Netflix, Stan, etc. But uploads will really open up the possibilities for home business and work from home scenarios that are not possible right now.The old "I have decent Internet, therefore everyone else needs to be quiet argument. Almost any new suburb will not have Foxtel cable available.The funny thing about fibre is that it won't go obsolete. Upgrades very cheap and easy to make. You don't have to relay the infrastructure, you just upgrade the nodes at each end of the line, similar to upgrading a NIC from 100mbit to gigabit.Yeah I hear you buddy...just like:- Those joint strike fighters we just increased our commitment to. They're obsolete and the Chinese and Russians have built better armed, faster, cheaper and more manoeuvrable options.- Those Collins-class submarines that are widely considered duds. But don't worry...they've just got those sort of working and the govt is putting out to tender to have them replaced with a bunch of new submarines we don't need.You would be surprised what the govt. pisses away money doing in your name if you actually paid attention.Show me some sources for that? The private sector may have been rolling out some very small pockets of business opportunity at best and that's it. I tried to get Telstra to put cable in my street (the street behind me has it) but they said that because Foxtel satellite and my 5Mbit ADSL was available there isn't any point because I already had awesome Internet by their standards.