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David Codey (61)
Why not let them if there is any chance you will use it in the future?
That's a fucking great premise for spending $43 billion.
Why not let them if there is any chance you will use it in the future?
I bet that it will end up being installed by the retailer provider, possibly at a low or no cost, but that this will then be subsidised by the NBN Co as the cost to the retailer (passed onto the consumer) will be too high and preclude people from taking it up. (Hope that made sense.)
Is there no cost for connection AFTER the initial roll out?
If that is the case, why would you let someone run a cable into your house you weren't going to use. I already have TV, internet and phone running in, why would I want another one, one I am not going to use anyway.
Mr Timms, do you already have broadband? If you already have fibre then there will be no new cable. If you have Telstra copper then there's a cable changeover that you will need, I think, since the Telstra CAN will be switched off and your phone line will stop working (although I must check that out).
If you currently have no broadband at all then you will have the option, since the government can't force it on you.
I understand all the wholesale side of this. I just have objections to being told what will or won't be installed into a house I own (probably runs a little deeper than that too, but we digress...).
It would be better handled by the reseller contacting the customer and advising they are changing the carriage of my service, when can we organise the connection.
The shift in the approach to rolling out the national broadband network from an "opt in" model to an "opt out" system could have significant, but offsetting, implications for its cost and revenues.
The move, which will be legislated initially by Tasmania, where the roll-out is being trialled, appears to relate to the poor take-up of the service there despite NBN Co not charging a wholesale fee to the retail service providers and discounting by the RSPs to attract customers.
In what you can assume will be an approach NBN Co tries to adopt nationally, Tasmanian homes and businesses will automatically have the optical networking terminals (ONTs) that bring the fibre to the outside of their premises attached unless they actively choose not to.
It is a departure from the nature of the roll-out envisaged in the implementation study produced by McKinsey and KPMG, who foresaw a demand-driven roll-out of the ONTs, with retail service providers having to obtain the consent of each individual home owner or business to install the boxes.
Just rolling the cable past premises would obviously be a lower cost approach to building the network than installing ONTs in every premise regardless of whether or not the owner wants to take up the NBN service.
It is instructive that in South Korea, where more than $US70 billion of government subsidies has created the world’s leading deployment of fibre, only about a third of household connections are actually fibre despite a decade of access to the network. Given a choice, it appears, a majority of users are happy with copper.
The implementation study’s revenue scenarios used three levels of demand for fixed line broadband – penetration rates of 70 per cent, 80 per cent and 90 per cent. For the NBN to get to those sorts of rates and maximise its rate of revenue growth it needs to displace the existing fixed-line technologies – copper and the HFC networks – as rapidly as possible.
That’s why the federal government used such draconian measures to force Telstra to negotiate with NBN Co to rip out its copper and hand over its customers. To give NBN Co some prospect of covering its funding costs it needs to become a wholesale monopoly, ideally as quickly as possible.
can someone pleeeeease explain to this hillbilly, what the value add of NBN will be to me personally using the net @ home?
Some of the tekheads have rambled on about a new world etc. But to me @ home what will it do, that I can't do now?
for my share of $43bill + higher access costs it would want to be pretty fucking outrageous!
Why wouldn't they just do a pilot in the inner city where the rollout cost per head is much lower & the take up rate probably much higher?
can someone pleeeeease explain to this hillbilly, what the value add of NBN will be to me personally using the net @ home?
Some of the tekheads have rambled on about a new world etc. But to me @ home what will it do, that I can't do now?
for my share of $43bill + higher access costs it would want to be pretty fucking outrageous!
Why wouldn't they just do a pilot in the inner city where the rollout cost per head is much lower & the take up rate probably much higher?