[AusNOG] NBN reveals ugly truth of profit margin destruction in telco land

Mark Smith markzzzsmith at gmail.com
Sat Sep 2 09:05:24 EST 2017


This would be better discussed on Whirlpool.

On 2 Sep. 2017 08:01, "Nikolai Lusan" <nikolai at lusan.id.au> wrote:

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> Hey,
>
> On Fri, 2017-09-01 at 22:06 +0200, ausftth at mail.com wrote:
>
> > The 2018 to 2021 corporate plan released on Thursday says NBN Co's
> > revenue will rise from $1 billion now to $5 billion in 2021. It is
> > expected about half of that revenue will come from CVC charges."
>
> So does this mean they'll finally have the $$'s to fix the [non-maintained]
> HFC networks, and/or just re-do the rollout as FTTP for everybody? :)
>
> There are also whole areas where NBN techs can't access existing HFC
> termination boxes. Because they were installed on the side of the building
> on a second floor, and require you to get on the roof to access them (which
> NBN OHS rules don't allow).
>
> Even the techs coming out to deal with my intermittent dropout issues have
> said "just wait a few years, it will all need to be re-run anyhow".
>
> - --
> Nikolai Lusan <nikolai at lusan.id.au>
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