[AusNOG] Simon Hackett's presentation from Comms Day yesterday - NBN fibre on copper prices

[Jake Anderson]

I did some quick guessing with numbers ;->
nbnco is expected to service 12.7M residences.
my wildassguess at the price for the box in the home in bulk is $300?
ergo cost of NTU's in total is 12700000 * 300 = 3810000000 = 3.8Bn
So around 10% of the rollout cost.
Nothing to sneeze at but would it be a dramatic change?

I'm wagering the bloke who does the "internal" install is paid around 
$150, so there's another 1.9Bn

I reckon if you want to save some $ nbnco builds it to the PCD, then the 
customer/RSP can provide a cable from the PCD and the NTU.
If the customer has a 12 year old child they can connect it all up, or 
they can get the "home install service" from dick smith for $100.

So that's 15% off the sticker price of the NBN, I think its time for lunch.

I'd really like to see how funding changes if NBNco charge a fixed price 
per port regardless of speed, and ditched the CVC charge.
CVC is going to be the biggest thing killing off value added services 
for RSP's I think, different flavours of unmetered content and the like.

The issue is probably that the "cheapest" plans would get moderately 
more expensive and everybody would whine.

On 18/07/13 12:10, Joseph Goldman wrote:
> I wouldn't be able to give you exact figures personally, I only just 
> learned a lot of this information myself. The over-arcing point 
> however was that because of this structure, NBNCo is now locked into a 
> single vendor, meaning there are no continuous competitive pricing 
> between major vendors. Mixed with the outlay for the product itself to 
> be developed, and the likely very specific support and future 
> development required from the single vendor, the cost of each unit 
> separately into each premises, then the battery backup systems on top 
> of that, it probably would be a large chunk of cost (at a 
> semi-educated guess).
>
> On 18/07/13 12:05, Mark Delany wrote:
>>> I agree on the premise that multi ports for multi-use is great, but the
>>> presentation is highly geared towards doing it cheaper up front. The
>> How much cost difference in the scheme of things does cheaper end-user
>> equipment make compared to the civil engineering exercise of laying
>> all that fibre?
>>
>>
>> Mark.
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