NBN boss defends take-up rate

National Broadband Network take-up rate is the envy of other telcos around the world, NBN Co boss Mike Quigley says

The National Broadband Network boss has defended the take-up rate for the new service, saying telcos elsewhere in the world would be quite envious.

NBN Co has the ability now to connect 18,000 households and businesses in five sites around Australia.

Of those 5500 have connected to the high-speed broadband service.

NBN Co chief, Mike Quigley, says the take-up rate of about 25 per cent in some centres was "quite high".

"Take-up rates on the fibre are ahead of what we expected," he told ABC Radio, adding the five sites were part of a trial to test construction methodology.

"Telcos around the world would be quite envious of those sorts of numbers."

The purpose of the trial was not to to test take-up numbers, Quigley said.

The NBN Co boss said the opposition's alternative proposal to running out fibre to 93 per cent of households was a combination "quite difficult" to achieve.

The opposition says a mixed of technologies, including cable, copper, wireless and fibre, is a quicker and cheaper option.

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Comments

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Gordon Drennan

Thu 01/03/2012 - 15:49

Lets be clear what he means by the words he used. He's not saying that 5500/18000 (30%) have signed up to use the NBN. He's saying only 30% of premises have even been wired with an NBN fibre connection. Other published figures say what the rest of us would call the "take-up rate" - the number of people signed up to use the NBN - is only about 11%. And for the NBN to be economically viable that number has to be something like 70%.

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David Jordan

Sun 04/03/2012 - 16:11

Gordon Drennan, the take-up rate is 30% (5500/18000), and those who have "the ability to connect" is 18000. There is no point in individually wiring up those who haven't taken up the service yet, they just put the infrastrucutre down first and wire it up once the premises signs up.

The article is clear as daylight, your comment just confused me enough to re-read the above article, realise you are wrong, and write this comment to point it out for everyone else.

I don't know how you deliberately misquote the article, then spew random statistics that are wrong or out of context.

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