Customers, ISPs praise NBN Tasmania launch

Renai LeMay
Monday, 16 August 2010 09:30

IT Policy - Government Tech Policy

Some of the first customers and ISPs to use the fledging National Broadband Network fibre rollout in Tasmania have praised the network in promotional videos distributed last week by NBN Co as part of the infrastructure's official launch.

'We'd already decided we would sign up, which we couldn't see why you wouldn't do that, especially if this was going to go national,' said one elderly lady. 'It's so fast, you can have all sorts of things open at the same time. Uploading to something like Facebook, I uploaded 60 photos last night from Cradle Mountain. It took me two minutes.'

Another couple said they downloaded '16 packages' from four computers at once, just to test the limits of the fibre cable. 'That 16 was as far as we got, because everything just keep on downloading so fast, we had to look for bigger things to download,' one of the pair said.

Another, geekier customer '” who appeared to browse gaming site Kotaku on his PC '” said they had spent several hundred US dollars buying 55Gb worth of games, which downloaded overnight. 'Yeah, I was quite happy,' he grinned.

ISPs also praised the NBN.