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<div class="">On 24 Oct 2017, at 1:30 pm, Benjamin Ricardo <<a href="mailto:ben.ricardo@acs.com.au" class="">ben.ricardo@acs.com.au</a>> wrote:</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">My question is, if this NBN is all about super-fast internet why force people to change their phone service?</span></p>
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<div>Because if you can keep a PSTN service then you could run ADSL over it and there goes the entire NBN business model. The business model assumes that NBN has a monopoly on the last mile. Without that monopoly NBNco is even less likely break even.</div>
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<div class="">David</div>
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