[AusNOG] Labor backflips again.......

[Jason Sinclair]

I find it truly amazing that one of the foundation "arguments" for the
NBN uniform pricing and that which garnered the support of the
Independents has now conveniently been "modified". Originally all
regional, rural and metro areas were supposed to pay the same price for
the NBN regardless. Now it is only for the lowest speed plans and if you
want comparable higher speed plans uniform pricing only applies to the
"same technology". 


NBN: "So Mr Farmer - you want 100Mb access to the NBN - that's 10x the
price of the metro area".

Mr Farmer: "But what about uniform pricing?"

NBN: "But you are in the sticks and we can't roll fibre out here - we
are delivering this over satellite. And satellite is more expensive. If
we rolled it out on fibre it would be the same price. You do want us to
make a commercial return don't you from your hard earned taxes that are
paying for this surely??"

 

Isn't it kinda comical how the "good" reasons for these new Bills,
gagging the ACCC, etc were convenient to support national uniform
pricing, but then don't really mean that at all...... Gotta remember
that for my business plan.

 

Jas

 

 

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