Australia's NBN is being 'smashed' by Starlink 

the scariest thing about living in Australia is the government.

I worked on the NBN installation 10/11 years ago for Sydney, Hobart and Launceston, and we knew as we were designing it it was already out of date.

If you want something stuffed up give it to the government.

Having more than 4 years Starlink, love it.

Starlink as a whole with 6200 satellite's cost $18b to develop, Australia's 2 NBN satellite's cost $56b and remember the NBN still isn't finished. and remember starlink covers the entire planet, nbn hardly covers one country. But we deserve what we get.

And lets not forget all those 'Australian' jobs being off shored to India. Well done NBN for inspiring such loyalty.

lol and the CEO of our NBN is the highest paid civil servant in Australia at over 3million annually including bonuses

Cut the salaries of NBN Top Executives. Stop giving your mates big salaries. Both the parties have failed. I am in the bush and the NBN sucks

I switched years ago from NBN fixed wireless to Starlink. zero regrets.

Watching this by using Starlink here in Sweden! During the years it got better AND cheaper.

I have 3 supermarkets nearby but I’m still waiting for NBN. What a waste of tax payers money

Proud of my Country. Ashamed of my Government.

The most incompetent business/corporation in history 😡😡

our internet here in australia is a joke full stop

People tried to WARN the government in 2009. What a waste of money!

I would sign up if I could afford it. NBN is terrible.

Nbn the money pit taxpayers are funding.. Money to mates

Why does everyone have to mention he’s a billionaire. He doesn’t own a house. He works 16 hours a day to advance us all. Money doesn’t mean anything to him superficially. Just drop it. It’s a waste of time

Just how much money have Australian governments spent on digging trenches all over the country?

Government is never as efficient as free enterprise. And it always costs more.

We're a nanny country.

One thing about Starlink... Your internet activity is not controlled and monitored by a fascist government agency

To end public reporting after losing in business competition is a clear sign saying that we dont want our customers to see how much we are ripping them off. And with the aussie government involved shows that they too do not care about their citizens.

If you control communication you control the truth.

Blind Freddie knew the nbn was an utter waste of time & money way back when it was just an idea. & here we are.

You’re not suggesting govt hides stuff that’s not favourable? Nooooooo

My NBN is fibre to the node. It’s a joke. The dropout and slowness drives me mad

EVERY Govt project is a RORT!

We don’t even have nbn here! And starlink is amazing!

Starlink is so good, never sending by money to another provider until they can keep up with the quality of starlink. Worth the premium.

Starlink needs to be $30 per month. Telstra needs to die.

It's all about PRODUCTIVITY. Musk's industry don't allow unionism. The NBN is riddled with unionism. Unions WILL eventually KILL your job.

I had NBN, it used to drop out when a car drove past. Now on starlink, works better than ever.

If he isn't already Elon should target the Australian market. It matters what happens in the Anglosphere. Make Australia great again.

5G came out while NBN was rolling out the cables. Now Starlink. 🤣🤣Speed of Australia

Not to mention censorship and keeping data of all internet activity by NBN

The Funniest thing, few months back we had a Crew out the front dig up tge foot path. So I asked what they were doing. "We are upgrading your nbn", I start Laughing and siad "mate your like five years late and I already have Starlink".

Step 1: buy the starlink dish Step 2: connect to solar and battery to starlink You are now connected to internet no matter what happens

Yep! and they still are rolling it out in our street. What a white elephant

Tony Abbott destroyed the nbn before it could even get off the ground. Tony is the man to blame. We were going to have the minimum standard for the world, but he thought, nah no one will ever use the internet...

It’s almost as if the government shouldn’t place multi billion dollar bets on being able to predict all the technological advances which may occur in an industry

I've been running star link for over 12 months now at home and at camping. Best thing I've done.

Our house runs on Wireless NBN- sateliite type dish that points to a tower on a hill behind us; reception drops if windy or raining, tower goes down multiple time a year, all for $105/ month on Telstra

Everyone in the industry knows this. Its going to smash the fixed wireless customers too, not just Satellite.

Very, very happy with starlink. NBN was total crap.

My family land in the middle of nowhere gets excellent signal from starlink than any other internet provider. Imagine that,.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 The NBN was always a badly thought out and implimented joke.

I have better connection than NBN at only 1/4 the price in Vietnam lol

I live rural. We used NBN satellite, but it was an absolute rip off. Minimal data allowance. Next to no bandwidth and very slow. Never looked since signing up to Starlink. So fast 260+mps via ethernet cable and 150mps to 176mps with wifi. Great bandwith. Down times are minimal. Works even in rainy weather. Worth the extra $30 per month.

if NBN wants to compete, stop regulating the upload speeds, this country is the only one in the world that still does

The geostationary satellite that the NBN uses is a completely different technology to LEO Starlink, and its primary purpose is military communications, so the civilian use of the system is a bit of a ruse. During a major international conflict the LEO satellites would be more vulnerable to attack and China has in fact publicly threatened to destroy StarLink. I use StarLink and NBN fixed wireless at the same time but can't justify the cost of setting up another redundant link using the NBN satellite too. Anyway if WWIII breaks out I'd be focused on my vegetable garden, not on teh interwebs.

who cares about gambling ads honestly Australia has so much bigger problems to worry about its stupid to even entertain that as a real issue

Government allowed telcos to structure plans in Australia that started at absurdly low speeds (12-25 mbps) at expensive prices to make us the ‘clever country’. Since that just about every country far exceeds our speeds with wider coverage. So much for that idiocy!

Indeed, but don't forget that Starlink service in Aus is approx 50 AUD/month more expensive than unlimited NBN (140%). The sad wreck that is NBN, which we were all forced onto like it or not, will end up the trash grade service for the poor while all that can afford to will go to Starlink.

Its almost like, Australia needed Labor's NBN plan 10 years ago...

We need new politicians.

Were in the bush. We had Skymuster originaly. 20mbps on a grest day -5 most days and drop out if you had a few clouds. Switched to STARLINK, average 160mbps and higher with supplied router. Drop outs non existant even in a storm. If you Fit grunty off board router, 260+ mbps. Awesome. We have hard wired NBN in our town house, thats 50mbps. Thnkyou thankyou ELON, Its a game changer and can make remote living the new way to live and work.

When all else fails, the crime syndicate takes you to war.

No Thanks. I cannot afford the cost per month on residential address in South Australia. Need pensioner discount , no more than $45.00 per month. That is why we don’t have internet connected to our homes.

It’s not just inefficient for internet service, it’s also very inefficient all around. I once applied for a job with them and they didn’t get back to me until years later.

Here in NZ a mobile carrier uses Starlink.. if you cant beat him ( and you wont ) join him.

Well that's interesting. I will check the availability of Star link and the prices and maybe I will jump ship too. Maybe we can the CEO of the NBN to cough up a bit of the shortfall. let's be honest anything the government touches will turn into a bloody disaster. Always has and always will.

I’m 6km from the Melbourne CBD and my NBN service is atrocious! For 3 years I’ve been putting up with degrading copper cables and worsening line noise whilst waiting for a cable rejuvenation project which is always 6 months away, all while they tell me the area is eligible for an upgrade to FTTP, but as yet no update on when. While this is happening I’m putting up with what is genuinely worse than 3rd world internet - 25mbps max speed download, 5mbps upload, intermittent drop outs every hour at some times of day, 3 long-term outages that have taken a week and an NBN technician each time to resolve, and to top it off, because there is a long term “case” active on my connection, every single time I call Optus to discuss, I get told they can’t raise another case with NBN while another one is active, so it has to escalate to a case manager just to get anything but the runaround. If that’s what Starlink is competing against, it’s no wonder they’re stealing customers at a great rate of knots…

Competition is good for consumers

And $100 a month for nbn, a static service. And gives us 12, 25, 50 mbs, perhaps the lowest speeds in the developed world. Aussie, Aussie, Aussie

Government owned companies need to keep transparency. They are funding themselves with taxpayer dollars.

Good on musk, Aus Telcos treat consumers with contempt

Hmmmmm Private enterprise vs. Gov.😂 🇺🇲🇺🇲💪

I swapped from NBN wired, fiber to the node, to starlink. Multiple outages on NBN, no one to hold accountable, and speeds of 25 mbit for $80/month!! With starlink I was reliably getting 200-300 mbit, no outages lasting >2 mins, and paying $130/month. ISPs need to get their shit together before more Australians start giving their money abroad.

"He's far from perfect" - why does every newscaster feel compelled to preface any comment on Musk like this? (Before praising him) Dislike.

Works great 👍 thank you very much Elon musk ❤

Worked on projects within "T" 2007-1010. It was well known, then it (NBN) was $$$ for jam. Simply (jobs for the boys) Overall cost? 10s of billions

Another Labor idea that has cost us !!

I'm sure their shareholders are loving that without weekly reports. Fkn pathetic

Skynews the only major news in Au that has the comment section turned on. Big up Skynews!

But not all of us want to pay $130 a month.

ive never heard such crap in my life. its over priced, drops out constantly and its slow af. my work had it and after the first month they were forced to get rid of it cause it just wasnt able to handle even phone calls

No surprise

Watch Labor regulate Starlink out of existence…

Dear Comrades! We are from Central Committee NBN!!! We Are Here to Help!!!

NBN are still 4 years late in my area in Victoria ,also Starlink is expensive and sometimes fails on stormy days in my Rural area

I'll explain it to you in plain english "The NBN is a steaming pile of politics" I should point out that Australia is behind a number of 3rd world countries on internet, and has actually gotten worse since the NBN was implemented(Also, the rollout is still not finished) As of 2024, Australia ranks 86th in the world for fixed broadband speeds, with an average download speed of 57.9 Mbps, which is significantly lower than the global average. For mobile internet, Australia ranks 26th globally, performing better in this category. The country's internet speeds are slower and more expensive compared to many other developed nations due to factors like vast geography, low population density, limited competition, and aging infrastructure. The National Broadband Network (NBN) project has also faced challenges, contributing to these issues.

Boomers buggered this up years ago. We live in the gold coast hinterland, everyone in our street has starlink coz its the only option.

I'm not sure about Australia but in America the government has never ran or funded a successful business. Unless you count theft as business they're batting 0000000%

Starlink is bloody good, especially being rural.

Remember labor was going to dig a fibreoptic cable to each home in Australia. It's the same as labor on green tech...there completely stupid.

Friendly reminder to all: the reason we have NBN like this is solely because Murdoch (who owns Sky and used it to push his agenda) wanted to keep cable profitable. Originally the NBN was fibre to the premises for every australian household, maybe looking at secondary options for the most remote areas. Murdoch’s buddies in the Liberal government deliberately sabotaged the NBN to be in Murdoch’s (and Sky’s) good books. Had it been implemented as planned by Labor, Australians wouldn’t have needed to turn to Starlink. i was one of the first australians to receive the starlink kit and it changed my family’s life. Sky News is complicit in the active obstruction of first world internet in our country, running puff pieces about how “all you need is” in line with the Liberal’s revisions to satisfy daddy murdoch.

Well if the coalition government didn't decide cheaper is better back in 2013 we wouldn't be having these issues And anybody who says they have had 10 years to fix it just remember for how many of those 10 years the coalition was in power

My sister lives in a very isolated ranch in Kansas. With Starlink, she has faster and more reliable internet than me, who lives in town and has fiber optic.

They need to fix the infrastructure. Also some of us are treated like second class citizens. I.e those who live on military bases still have old copper...

NBN - No Bloody Network! WE WILL NOT COMPLY

OMG Sharri, only 200,000 customers. Starlink is for where NBN technology, which is essential everywhere else, isn't!

NBN has always sucked

My neighbour has fibre to house while I “had” fixed wireless! I asked NBN two years ago about having the same as my neighbour, the fibre goes past my house! Was told it would cost me $10K! Changed to starlink, went from 15Mbps to 350mbps for an increase of around $40p/m. NBN = white elephant! Didn’t we all pay for it!!!

And Australia is still pumping millions into old NBN technology.. 1.1 billion in 6 months… Its a no brainer why Elons tech should be our new internet and phone service.

NBN is shit we dumped it years ago!

In Brasil Amazonia the starlink is working very well and a good price!

Does anybody realize that Rupert is pissed off he couldn't force all Australian's to have their internet delivered via his Foxtel boxes????

Its amazing how much better everything works when pay depends on performance and the government isn't just giving the contract to someone's brother.

One word to describe this whole debacle. "Tony Abbott"