Malcolm Turnbull promised us faster, cheaper NBN delivered by the end of 2016. But instead he made it slower, doubled the cost and doubled the delivery time.
People have been contacting me to share their frustration with the NBN for years.
We know that Malcolm Turnbull has stuffed the NBN - it’s time to lose the secrecy. Share your experience and #NBNfails so together, we can show Malcolm Turnbull and the Liberals that their second-rate NBN just doesn’t cut it.
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We fear that this is going to happen again, NOBODY up here in the hills (which is meant to be metropolitan Melbourne we’re only 30mins from the CBD!) is going to get NBN cable of any sort.. we’re going to be dumped onto Satellite and stuck with our failing, unreliable, slow ADSL basic service (we can’t even get the supposedly better ADSL2 or ADSL2+)
He argued that we didn’t need to pay for a Ferrari when what we needed was a Holden. This has come back to bite the LNP party for we are now getting an old Holden lemon with the cost of the Ferrari.
In my area we are still waiting for HFC NBN delivery and the pits in the street have been visited about 20 times to audit what is in the ground. Hopeless.
Shame on Turnbull and Abbott for deliberately sabotaging what was to be a visionary bit of infrastructure
I would suggest an inquiry into this debacle would be on the cards when Labor gets in
Somehow, things get even more ridiculous. After my original issue with iiNet, I decided I needed to change provider as I could not get ADSL again. Telstra were the only NBN provider who had a 4G back up system in their modem, so I chose them. I had already been using a 4G data stick in the three weeks I had been without internet due to iiNet, so I knew I could at least get decent speeds that way.
I rang Telstra and they confirmed that the 4G back up would work while I was waiting for the NBN to actually get fixed. However, they were not so forthcoming in the fact that the 4G back up is only limited to 5Mbps. This is ten times slower than what I expected, and still three times slower than my old ADSL! I rang them, but they said they could not uncap the 4G back up, so that was the best I could do. As I’d already been without internet for three weeks, I figured this was still better than nothing.
Fast-forward to the 5th of December. iiNet sent me text messages to say that my technician appointment is booked for the 26th of November 2018. ie, the company I had already cancelled with sent me details about a technician appointment for a date that had already passed by well over a week. They sent me a carbon copy of the SMS and emails which they originally sent me three weeks earlier.
But here was the problem; despite being told to do so, iiNet had not cancelled their previous order. I rang Telstra on the 5th, and they told me that it should be working, but it obviously wasn’t. We then worked out that iiNet’s old order was the issue, after I contacted NBN Co.
And this is what NBN Co told me to do: I had to ring iiNet and make them cancel the order (taking up to 48 hours). I then had to ring Telstra and tell them to put in a new order. Because, get this, NBN Co’s system is that rubbish it cannot recognise there was a queue of orders and thus it could not process Telstra’s order, even when iiNet’s had cleared. This is just plain stupid. And even worse, I’ve had to be the middle man between all of these companies because NBN Co cannot just cancel the order from their end! So five weeks later I am still without NBN because NBN Co, Telstra and iiNet could not figure it out for themselves! This is just ridiculous!
Unfortunately it took iiNet over a week to organise a technician to come out. He visited today (almost three weeks later), and while very polite and helpful, he was unable to resolve the issue due to wiring in the pit. He said the previous installers had presumed the wiring went to the pit out the front, but this was incorrect and apparently it goes all the way across the street (a four lane highway). Therefore, they need to get someone else out here to actually wire it correctly, and that person is already very, very busy in this area.
However, the technician did say that my ADSL should be able to be reconnected, as it is not a fault with my equipment. I rang iiNet back today and they said it was not possible to put through an order for ADSL again.
My question is, who makes that decision that the ADSL is now cut? I have gone three weeks without internet so far and need it for work. The ADSL was functioning perfectly before being disconnected. How do I go about getting it reinstated?
There has been a lot more to this saga, such as iiNet taking so long to get a technician out here, but the short version is I need my ADSL reconnected ASAP.
I have lived at my current address in Avoca Beach for four years. In all this time I have had at least 3-4 complaints per year for my faulty telephone line. When NBN was taken up by me I hoped all my problems would be solved. This is not the case and as a fact the problem has worsened! I complained to my provider yesterday and was surprised when an NBN technician arrived a day early. He spent almost an hour and a half tracing my cables down the street. He admitted that the line was faulty and had been for years. There is no spare cable pairs available and they have chosen to take no action. My download speed is very unreliable and can drop out frequently. I use the internet/email a lot and often have to resort to my mobile phone as an alternate modem. This is totally unsatisfactory. I wish to register my complaint and frustration of the so called “Broadband system” and there appears to be no way for me to speak with a person responsible for the maintenance of the ancient copper network.
I look forward to your reply.
Kind regards,
Roger
I talked again to them when I got my bill on 5/10/2018 and saw there was no reduction. I spoke to Optus. When I tried exploring alternatives to give me a better speed I was quickly reminded that I was under contract for two years and that there only was the one speed, the one I had, and there was no reduction for not getting what I signed up for as that did not exist. I also have a data contract with them for a little wifi modem that connects to the 4G network, and I felt this might qualify me for changing plans, something I have NEVER had problems doing in the more than 10 years I have been with Optus. Not this time! Not even discussed!
I live in a public housing area. A couple of streets over in the private housing area they have FTTKerb, to replace the second rate copper wires we all share.
I have voted Nation all my life but that is about to change!
ISP: NBN FTTN & Telstra;
Plan:- 200GB+200GB bonus & 25Mbps @$79/month inc. all national calls
Problem:- always slow, slower than the suggested speed should normally provide; promised by young salesperson fast speeds, and many devices used at once. BUT even at 18Mbps speed always seemed slower than 4-6Mbps speed of old ADSL at same premises.
First year was many drop outs – daily. And very slow when others in household of 4 turned on devices. e.g. 4-9PM
Action:- Many, many calls to Telstra support line, alway had to start story at the beginning; every O/sea operator checked the line at time of call and informed me line was okay;
Finally after taking issue to Ombudsman, then Telstra trying to resolve without result and going back to Ombudsman, a senior problem solver from Telstra offered me either to end contract or receive a credit for 50% of 24 month cost. I accepted the 50% offer.
Now in August 2018 I am out of contract, they have put me on the new 1000GB/50Mbps plan and mystical speed are 9-18Mbps at peak times (4-11PM).
How I feel: Tired, frustrated, and a bit angry at the lengths I have to go to to be heard by Telstra, the mis-information fed to see, the inaction, and of course the drop-outs and slow speeds including paying for 50Mbps and only getting at best 18Mbps.
John, Drysdale, Victoria.
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