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Are you still waiting for 'fraudband'?

7 yrs ago

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So, the NBN was supposed rolled out throughout Australia by the end of this year. That's not happening. Now we're to wait until 2020 for first-world internet connection.

Malcolm Turnbull, although not running the country at the time when he said it, is being slammed for another broken Liberal party promise.

As Labor's Communications Spokeswoman Michelle Rowland put it: “No wonder Australians are fed up with all the deceit of Malcolm Turnbull’s fraudband.

“They are simply not getting what they paid for.”

Read more at News.com.au

Have you got the NBN? Is it any good? Should the rest of us be envious of your blistering internet speed?

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It's interesting to see news.com going for Malcolm's hide. I guess his days are numbered.

Tony, are you ready again?

Yes, Barak, Talkbull's days are numbered and over. He certainly dropped the ball with this little wiring project and dropped it again BIGTIME as the country's p.m. (small letters deliberately) by achieving absolutely nothing since being in office, except for boring people to tears with his bland rhetoric and grimacing smirk. He is a folly and an embarrassment to the country. Les Patterson would be a more respectable image than pompous MALignant.

PlanB

7 yrs ago

I have been able to get BB since July -- but am holding off as the ones that have it are off line with Landline AND internet a lot of the time -- many have been without BOTH for a month.

The people I know with the ORIGINAL BB find it GREAT.

Barak are you serious about Abbott coming back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ??????????????

God forbid!

I don't want Tony, or the Libs. But the Libs right now are so far to the right they are not thinking rationally. Malcolm is not working out.

Who knows what stupid move they will make next?

PlanB

7 yrs ago

I feel the same Barak and the Lab aren't much better

Labor's NBN would have been better.

PlanB

7 yrs ago

Yes Barak I know some in Victoria that have the Labour one and they said it is great

A tin can on each end of a piece of string would be better! This, too, would have been too hard for MALcontent.

geomac

7 yrs ago

NBN is being done around Morwell ar the moment. My ISP has contacted me to sign up for the NBN and choose a plan. 50 GB plan same cost from memory but only 10 bucks for phone.

Waiting to retire at 70

7 yrs ago

I live in a street of single residences. At either end of the street are 2 high rise areas (one of apartments and one commercial. Both these have FB but none of the single residences. Why? More duplicitous nonsense from Swakowski, NBN, Mitch (maybe if I smile a lot people won't think I'm out of my depth) Fifield, and Malcolm Turncoat. All are only interested in multistory roll out.

ghoti

7 yrs ago

I live in the bush. I used to be on a satellite connection. It was oh-so-s-l-o-w. When I complained, my ISP said "Ah, just wait till we get you on the new NBN satellite". I'm now on it, and I can hardly tell the difference. Some (not all) YouTube clips still sputter and splutter. Forget iView. Forget sending large files, which I need to do for my business. "Fraudband" it is. Some of us had confidence that supposedly-tech-savvy Turnbull, the supposedly-smart businessman, would get a blisteringly-fast system up and running. How foolish were we?!

I read somewhere that the NBN Co has something like 95 professional public-relations people employed, all paid for by the taxpayer, no doubt handsomely. The best PR that NBN Co could achieve? A super-fast reliable broadband system across the country.

PlanB

7 yrs ago

Don't forget this scroll down and get the Video

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/malcolm-turnbull-you-didnt-invent-the-internet-waleed-aly-slams-pms-nbn-hypocrisy-20160406-go02xz.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18owzYfvIcE

No sign of the NBN in my suburb.

Thank goodness.

My ADSL/home phone bundled service works fine, is quite fast and with unlimited internet downloads plus all free phone calls (inc. some international) and no line rental component, not all that expensive at $80.00 a month IMO. Not sure how that compares to what others pay.

No YouTube stutters for me.

No NBN in our area either, but the ADSL is painfully slow, drops out constantly, and is hideously expensive. They say NBN will be available by March next year. I'm not sure I want it based on what others tell me, and we've had ongoing lengthy service failures since they started putting it in. Two weeks with no phone or internet at all last month!

We're dealing with politicians here folks. It would be nice if Turnbull's statement before the 2013 election was quoted so we could then verify what Rowlands has said is the truth. Politicians have a tendency to take a small part of what was said, quote it out of context and then hand out several layers of abuse against the person quoted. Both sides do it and the media go along with it.

We don't have broadband in our area yet and I agree with PlanB as there have been problems in some nearby areas with people signing up and losing both internet and landlines for extended periods. I might point out that this problem is caused by the ISP, not the NBN.

PlanB

7 yrs ago

Old Man I have Land line with Helstra and the internet with Internode -- never have trouble with the Internet just the land line -- was off the landline for a week in September and a few days last month and a few days this month --

Julez

7 yrs ago

I live 35kms from a major regional Qld town and can't even get ADSL. My only connection to the internet is via my phone on the very edge of the transmission beam (v slow and drops out) at $10/Gb. I'll never get NBN or anything else. You'd think I was in Timbuktu (come to think of it, I've seen docos that showed Malians using smartphones. Reception is probably better in Timbuktu).

I got excellent performance on an island in the middle of Lake Titicaca in Bolivia.

vincent

7 yrs ago

You are very lucky. I have to run three times around the house, stand on one leg and may be have one bar on the phone. Telly sometimes and internet intermittend let alone any speed.

Cost out of this world compared to city folk, but that has always been the case.

Care of Telstra initially. we paid double the amount for dial up and a lousy service to boot.

Nothing has ever changed since then, it makes you weep when you see a Masai woman in the sticks in Africa pull a mobile and start chatting away.

Look, let's be brutally honest here, why is it necessary to have "blistering hot" internet speed, most of you don't need it anyway.

geomac

7 yrs ago

I would like to have my internet without relying on the landline to deliver it Ray. The NBN will do that and provide a phone service for 10 bucks a month if I want it. Without any blistering speed as you put it I would save on phone rental every month.

same people same whingers, barak, fast? eddy, ghoti, labor shines out of their a......

Same inability to discuss the topic there heemsy.

Back under your rock, hindjerk. That's a good lad. No one asked for your ALWAYS foul comments. Fob off. No one likes you. Get the hint?

justme

7 yrs ago

I read recently the big Telco's are going to introduce 5G by 2020.

Not sure what it means or how it will fit with NBN.

But it sounded like it is supposed to be better than NBN.

I wonder how much the NBN will cost, only to be superseded by technology advances, compared to the pension saving introduced from 1st Jan 2017.

Joe Hockey said the age of entitlement is over;

yep - for everyone other than the pollies.

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