All is not well in the rollout of the Claytons NBN:
By the company's own assessment, the giant infrastructure project has fallen two-thirds short of its benchmark construction timetable. Connection costs to each house or business are also blowing out.
Oh dear.
The "final design" process for connections - needed before construction can start - is running far behind schedule, according to the February 19 report.
They probably don’t know where all the wires go, Telstra certainly doesn’t, or the state of the copper.
While 1,402,909 premises should have been approved at the date of the report, the figure was sitting at 662,665 - 740,000 fewer than planned.
The snapshot says NBN Co has achieved 29,005 fibre-to-the-node "construction completions", while noting its internally budgeted target for this period was more than three times this at 94,273.
They might speed up a bit with practice but the copper is crap, the address database is not accurate or up to date the power companies are not under NBN Co’s control and the whole sorry mess is going to be a nightmare to complete. If the morons had had an early election late last year, after the thug was deposed by the merchant banker then this wouldn’t matter so much but this crap is now happening in the lead up to an electio and hopefully will be yet another drag on Liberal support.
The report, which was never intended for public disclosure, reveals the extent to which the more than $46 billion project has drifted off course, mainly during the time when Mr Turnbull was in direct control as communications minister
Being Chairman of the Board of Ozemail and selling his stake at the height of the dotcom market was probably easier than overseeing his crazy scheme of MTM of incompatible and obsolescent and obsolete technologies. Utterly useless prat!
. . .the report outlines a plethora of faults, including that delays in power approvals and construction are being caused by electricity companies which account for 38,537 premises or 59 per cent of overall slippages against the target.
Another 30 per cent of delays are down to material shortages and a further 11 per cent are attributed to completion reviews.
"Construction completions currently sits at 29K against the corporate budget of 94K," the report states.
"Gap-to-target has increased from 49,183 to 65,268 at week ending February 12.
"Construction completions gap can be attributed to 3 main issues: power, supply, and completions under review."
Also noted in the report is a rise in the cost per connection of design and construction, which has now reached $1366, compared with the target price of $1114 - a 23 per cent increase.
Sooner, more affordable and all that. In more good news for Turncoat the weather is warming up again and some nodes are going to stop working, the heat exchanger in each node cannot cope with above 30°C temperatures. Gee, summers that never go over 30°C. That may happen somewhere but not in Australia!
Yet the NBN Co's own documents show that for all that money, it remains bedevilled with problems from the slow design approvals by power utility companies (FTTP did not require electrical supply but FTTN does) and as a result of material and supply problems. Even expertise in dealing with the copper network is scarce.
While the Coalition's pared-back version of the NBN was intended to deliver the system quicker and more cheaply, the company's snapshot suggests some of the design factors of FTTN are causing the bottleneck.
FTTN is the reason for FTTN delivery being slower and more expensive! All this was predicted in detail, the morons didn’t listen and now it is coming to pass, and coming to pass in the lead up to an election! Fitting!
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/federal ... n5l0s.htmlOriginal report first published by Delimiter:
https://delimiter.com.au/2016/02/29/del ... us-report/