A vision statement for the NBN, one that can be used to criticize Fraudband and advance the need for the NBN among the electorate. Putting this up here for for comment and MERCILESS critique. _________________ **** VISION FOR THE NBN **** The NBN is a communications system that can carry voice, video and data—NCS might be a better name. In contrast to the aging badly maintained copper Customer Access Network the NBN offers secure communications that will not be slowed by weather as communications are carried by glass cables immune to pits flooding etc. The NBN is able to carry a tremendous amount of communications, its carrying capacity will be adequate for fifty years at least. And this bandwidth is nearly symmetrical so you can do more than just download content, nearly everyone can be a [u]content creator[/u]. **Roads of the 21st Century. ** We have an utter fool as Prime Minister, who can only talk in slogans one of which is “Roads for the 21st Century” which makes no sense. Roads, our modern roads, start with John Loudon McAdam in the 1700s. Roads are 18th C technology! No, to a large extent FTTH is the roads of the 21st century! Unlike our 18thC technology, these 21stC roads can carry unlimited communications! To increase the communication load that can be carried we need only change the “on and off ramps” not the “road” itself! So we see how these optical fibres form the roads of the 21st century! No gridlock, ever! ** But can we afford it? ** Let me turn this question on its head. Can we afford[i] not [/i]to build a modern communications system? One all our trading partners are building? Asia, Europe, America even Africa have or are building FTTH communication systems! As to the money costs, the Strategic Review by the new NBN Co board had to resort to several tricks (a deliberately slowed rollout plus trickery with cut off dates to make FTTN look cheaper. In actual fact—rolling out FTTH will be cheaper because it will raise much more revenue, since it has this immense capability to carry communications! The NBN will pay for itself. More than that, high end users like business will subsidize normal users with lighter communications needs. And business itself will save money as Telstra fibre in the CBDs is very, very expensive! ** What will it do? ** The NBN will end the brutal isolation of the Bush. All Australians, no matter where the are, will be connected to the NBN. The NBN will enable families with members widely separated to stay in touch. Think grandparents talking to grandkids face to face with high definition, proper lip synchronization etc, so much better than phone, email or FaceBook! Skype can do something like this now but over Telstra copper it is pretty low definition. FTTH is needed for high definition video phone calls. Rural producers who are already on the NBN are using it to track stock, monitor ripeness of fruit and moisture in the soil and the like but the main use could well be tracking their produce beyond the farm gate—Griffith council told a Senate committee that even large producers had trouble doing that now. Business will be enabled to have much better communications with branch offices, customers and staff. In fact, once the NBN is rolled out more and more staff find they can work from home, known as telecommuting. At the present time it isn’t really feasible, the communications are nowhere near good enough but with the NBN video phone communications, the ability to work together over the NBN will be such more and more will work from home a great deal. This could see people leaving the poorly serviced, high crime outer suburbs for cheaper real estate in country towns, commuting to work once a week or month. think of the reduced congestion of our roads! The other area where the NBN will make a real difference is in health. Actual face to face contact with medical staff is needed for diagnosis but monitoring and follow up can be done over the NBN! As most health expenditure typically occurs in old age this has the ability to greatly reduce health expenditure! With the Baby Boomers beginning to retire and reach the high health expenditure years the NBN will allow this load on the health system to be managed with Boomers able to stay in their own homes rather than hospitals and nursing homes! People might say “Wireless is the communication system of the future, cables are old fashioned” but they will be wrong! The towers that broadcast data, cell phone signals etc are still connected back to the internet by fixed lines and the best fixed lines are fibre. To carry more and more data, to have mobile data less influenced by weather more and more of the towers are needed and the more and more problems with spectrum, the range of frequencies that can be used, arise. One hair–thin optical fibre has much more spectrum available than the whole EM spectrum—if all radio and TV broadcasts were shut down the spectrum available to mobile communications is still much less than the spectrum available to optical fibre. The NBN is the roads of the 21st century! ___________________________ OK, while a few examples are given I think the statement is general enough. More detailed stuff can be made in statements address to specific constituencies, households, business, rural etc. I have always believed that the retirement of the Boomer generation will cause huge problems—health costs as explained in the statement but also the relatively tiny workforce supporting the relatively huge retired population. The NBN can help both in reducing health costs and in making the workforce more productive, productive enough to carry the Boomer overhang. And the Boomer generation can be put to use as volunteers, to communicate their skills to younger workers, to work part time well into their 70s—plenty of pensioners do the distributing of junk mail, for example, giving them exercise and earning a bit more money. The pension really needs to be increased—it is the second lowest in the OECD—and restructured so pensioners can do more work without losing big parts of the pension, this is idiocy at this stage. Yes, NewStart is even worse and must be boosted and also restructured but that is outside the scope of this Statement. A copy that might be easier to read is at: polanimal.au/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=2801&p=90438#p90438
Posted on: Sun, 17 Aug 2014 00:30:11 +0000
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