Submission to Senate on NBN Implementation Study

As noted in my earlier post, the Australian Government officially released the much heralded KPMG/MCKinsey NBN Implementation Study to both the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy (DBCDE) and the Senate Select Committee on the National Broadband Network. Pretty much immediately the DBCDE established a public wiki for discussion (no longer available) and the Senate Committee set a deadline of the 27th May 2010, for public feedback regarding the Implementation Study recommendations (found here).

This post is a more approachable highlight of key points and observations from my review of the KPMG/McKinsey Implementation Study submission to the Senate Select Committee on the National Broadband Network.

Updates are pending …

Just a quick note to my regular readers (and the various itinerant visitors). There are a couple of substantial posts pending release, however as a direct result of some recent engagements they are delayed … momentarily.

Finally, NBN Co agree to talk with me

Today I met with Matthew Lobb (NBN Co Senior Advisor, Industry Engagement) and Jamie Chard (NBN Co Architect) at the NBN Co Sydney office. Fundamentally I wanted to discuss the concerns that I had been raising since February this year around their planned Point of Interconnect (PoI) models and their planned QoS implementation.

Twitter stream summary of NBN Implementation Study

Last Thursday the Australian Government finally released the much heralded McKinsey/KPMG NBN Implementation Study. Costing the Government roughly $25million and taking over 9 months to prepare, the final report weighed in at just over 500 pages and almost 3Mb in size (which brings it close to being worth roughly $1 per bit). This post is just the raw tweets stolen directly from my live twitter stream (#nbnis). A more traditional critique will be forthcoming soon. Stay tuned for more.