Hi I Just wanted to do a blab video taking a look at the progress of the Australian NBN or national broadband network. It's supposed to make Australia a world leader in terms of Internet connectivity, communications infrastructure. the whole works. and it was that.

the big selling point at our last Federal election back in 2013. they won. so I wanted to spend 40 billion. On the other side, wanted to spend 30 billion and our Australia's not a huge country, but we were going to spend a massive amount of money on all these fiber-optic infrastructure or the current government wanted to do copper or fraud band as it's commonly called anywhere.

Anyway, I've done a video on that anyway. I don't want to turn this into a political video I Thought I'd actually have a look at is the NBN available here in Sydney where I live and I work here in the North Business Park Here in Sydney a major Business Park here and I wanted to see is the NBN available here. Where is it available in Sydney From the business perspective because of course, businesses are the engine that drives the country's economy. small business.

The government's keep saying it over and over and over again. So look at this. They quote some impressive figures here. Progress so far: 1.2 million premises ready for service.

Little exclamation mark next to that. look in: New South Wales where I Am Three hundred and Twenty-two thousand, Three hundred, twenty-five thousand premises. That sounds pretty impressive. Okay, they're making progress.

fantastic, But hey, we can check the roll out map for Sydney and here it is: Sydney. It basically extends like 50 kilometres from the Sydney CBD here, right out to the Blue Mountains. It's like a big semicircle like this and we've got the mapping of what's available. Now take a look here.

We've got purple is the service available and as far as I'm concerned only fixed-line matters Wireless is crap. If you want a solid internet connection, you need fire bar. You need direct connection, low pin connection. especially for a YouTube content producer like myself who doesn't just want to download everything I want to upload as well? You know all that content that's being produced on the that people put on the Internet.

Somebody's got to put it there. You're welcome. So as far as I'm concerned for a solid NBN internet connection, you've got to have fibre. You've got to have fiber to the door or in my case fibre to the building here and then with copper for the next 50 meters running to my business suite here which is fine so we can.

The Purple's are service available, the brown is building commenced and green is built in preparation and well that's not blue. I Don't think there's any blue here. so anyway we can have a look at all these coverage areas. so they got like individual buildings that have been done and like entire areas or color cutters.

all we care about is the purple one. Service available. There's building commenced which is brown and There's built in preparation. Whatever that means could be years down the track.

So let's go in and take a look at my business park shall we? So I'm in the North Business Park which is one of the biggest business parks in Sydney It's got over 400 companies. it's actually I'm sure it's a lot more than that actually our employee more than 25,000 people. So a huge business park. Let's take a look to see if it's available and here it is.

Here's the Norwest business parking here at basically as Stan is all of this all the way in here and as you can see, there's a couple of purple zones there which means that they're connected. but let's go in and have a look. Why? Thanks for playing No-nothing This purple area here is actually a new residential housing apartment complex and that's been the NBN Focus is that all new developments must have the NBN connected which is great, of course you know. I Totally agree with that, but look all of Norway's Business Park all of it all in here and right down here at the other section down.

Lexi's then drive down here. Absolutely nothing. Not a sausage, another new complex in there going up, and a new housing. the state just going up over here has gone up, but nothing in the Nor West Business Park and nothing in the potentially even bigger Castle Hill trading zone.

This is all industrial commercial businesses as well. Absolutely nothing. Not a sausage, thank you very much. NBN Yeah, well.

Dave you just got sour grapes because well, you were unlucky enough to live and work in the Norwest Business Park on the Castle Hill trading Zone. Here, you know, tough luck. What about the other business parks in Sydney? Surely they're connected. Okay, let's go have a look.

Well, let's go to the business parks calm day you directory which lists all the different business parks? let's have a look at: Macquarie Business Park This one has been one of the leading technology centres in Sydney It's almost like I Guess if there's any mini Silicon Valley in Sydney, it's probably going to be around the Macquarie Business Park Here, let have they got the NBN connected. Surely Why no, there's just part of the university here. Something down there. that's it.

Might even be some residential housing, but nothing. Look the entire Macquarie Business Park Are you me? Well, how about these ones here? Not too far from Macquarie There look at all these different little business parks in here. A bunch of them around like Lane Cove area. Why nothing? Thanks for playing? Well, what about Chatswood I Used to work at Chatswood couple of decades back.

It's a huge business centre. Well, they got nothing but a couple of buildings connected here. Well, what about say North Sydney I Mean it doesn't. It doesn't show up as business parks.

but North Sydney Huge business hub here, right? What have I got? Why nothing? So if you're going there, you can see that the odd building is connected here and there. But look at it. Well, surely the centre of Sydney the central business district must be flooded with NBN connections. Surely? Why? Nope.

Thanks for playing. Yeah, it's got a couple of buildings here in here using you. Is that new development over there? Is that? Bangaru I Don't know. but yeah, a couple of odd buildings.

but how many businesses are in the Sydney CBD How many of them have access to the NBN? Well, the what a few percent. Ah, but come on. Dave What about the Australian Technology Park It's supposed to be our showcase for you know they're like if there is going to be a Silicon Valley you know in here in Australia it's probably going to be at Australian Technology Park. Well yeah, I suspect not.

they do. I Like the actual Australian Technology Park building itself has awesome fiber connectivity. Don't get me wrong and so does NICTA are beside it which is like a research organization. but if you're a smaller business who wants to move into the Australian Technology Park Nothing fail.

What about all of these business parks all around here is just south of Sydney near, you know, around near Sydney Park and Beaconsfield Yeah, they've got the odd building here and there, but basically all of it not if you want to move into any one of the thousand businesses there, forget it. But surely Parramatta right? It's practically the second central business district of Sydney and all of the government departments are moving there because they you know Parramatta is going to be the next big thing. Well, not without NBN It's not. There's the odd building connected.

but yeah, not looking good. But hey, I could be accused of being a bit selective. So let's take a look at one of the better areas little Black Town, right? It's got a business, lots of businesses all around third, Avenue and places like that around here. First, second, third, Avenue All on the north side of Black Town.

Here this is all like, you know, industrial type business stuff. Well look at this that looks like a huge coverage south of Black Town. But look where the brown stuff is. Building commenced.

Okay, you've commenced it great couple of years down the track. how long will it take you to finish? But this is all the business part. They've connected all the residential stuff all around here. Fantastic for the residents of Black Town.

Good on you. You can get the you know 100 megabit internet connection for less than 100 bucks a month. I've got to pay 400 bucks a month for over 400 bucks and for 10/10 internet connection. So maybe I should move to Black Town, but this is what I wanted to point out.

They're focused on residential instead of businesses. Businesses are the engine of the economy. Why can't businesses have access to the NBN Maybe five ten years time? If we beg for it and out a bit more, look north and south east of the airport here. Here's the main Sydney International, Airport and tons of business parks around here in industrial estates and well, you go compare it here.

Yeah, there's the odd building, the odd building connected, and probably you know, like a new development. Or you know, maybe if somebody was lucky to get it connected. but basically bugger all. what are your odds of moving in a business around the airport there and trying to get the NBN? Good luck.

But seriously, I could go on and on and on and compare like business centers to where they've rolled out the NBN and they're just not rolling it out to the business centers. Oh Double facepalm. But hey, what am I complaining about? Take a look at the MDF room, the communications room in the basement of my building here. Look at all these fibers coming in and I'm lucky enough to have both major fiber providers in the country right into the basement on my building Telstra and UE Comm which is our Optus.

Well let's have a look what Telstra can offer me one of the best star providers in the country. You don't have to worry about the service, it'll be top-notch They can give me a 50 gigabyte per month our data plan: 10 megabit, 10 megabit Ethernet symmetrical connection Fantastic. They only want one thousand, seven hundred and fifty-five dollars a month and that's and if you go over the 50 gig it can be up to. They cap it at a very generous seven thousand, Nine hundred and twenty dollars a month.

Eight cents per megabyte extra. Thank you very much. Telstra And it's only Eleven hundred dollars. Connection Charge: Absolute bargain for a minimum total plan cost for the 10 megabit per second plan a 42 One hundred and twenty dollars.

What a bargain. Sign me up. Well surely Optus is better. Well, I got a quote from them.

It's $1200 a month for the same ten megabits per second symmetrical Ethernet connection. And we also have a wireless dish on the roof for our company called Big Air and there I've got lots of internet connections in business parks around Sydney including not Norwest Business Park They've got to be exchanged here. They only want 800 bucks a month for 10 May 10 Meg Internet connection bargain. And if you're really, really lucky and you're working a building that's are connected with TPG Zone fiber.

you can actually get a reasonable plan. You can get a hundred megabits per second that fiber plan for 300 bucks a month. That's not too shabby for Australian prices, but I checked and they only have the fiber installed in buildings in the central business district. That's it.

No other business parks in Sydney So yeah. So after spending a couple of years struggling with an Adsl2 plus connection here in the lab which is an absolute joke for a Youtube content producer like me with a lousy 1 megabit per second upload speed, I Actually found a company who would install a fiber specifically for me to the building because I can't piggyback on the Telstra all the Optus fibers that are here because well, they've just monopolized the plant and charged like wounded freaking bulls. And so they this company installed a specific fiber to the building for me. But they've got a plan starting for 275 bucks a month for the same 10 Meg 10 Meg plan.

I'm actually on the 20 Me 20 million. so it cost me over $400 a month. So but still, that's like a bargain compared to Optus and Telstra and B gear. So there you have it.

There's a look at Sydney at least for business internet connection. It is hopeless. None of the major business parks in Sydney that I am aware of have rolled out. They have the NBN rolled out for them.

it. It's just not a priority for the government. It's ridiculous. They've got it ass-backwards They're a bunch of bloody goers and companies like me.

The small little companies have to resort to get in our own fiber installed, paying some company to install a fiber, and then get in a plan which is relatively cheap in the schemes of Sydney but it's an absolute joke to the rest of the developed world. I Get viewers who say oh yeah, I get a hundred Meg Bit hundred Meg Beat fibre to my home for $20 a month. Little country's a little tiny country's you would never think of. They brag to me that they're getting one gig one gig fiber connection to their home for you know, tens of dollars per month governments A joke with a laughingstock.

Anyway, I hope you found that interesting, if not depressing at the current state of business. Internet here in Sydney at least and pretty much in Australia It's just a backwater, so yeah, go on. Everyone from overseas boast about how wonderful your internet connection is. Or if you're in Sydney and you're lucky enough to have the NBN yeah, rub it in - catch you next time.