[AusNOG] Screw the NBN, says TPG: We'll do our own FTTB

[Tim McCullagh]

"The NBNs price model is, amongst other things, dependant on scale"

I would suggest the pricing is more dependant on the cost of deployment ( and a 6% return on the build cost) and given the absolute balls up of a roll out the cost is currently probably double the cost which a suitably qualified telco network engineer would have spent.   I have been watching the absolute waste going on in Toowoomba, with much amazement.  I imaging it is the same else where.  

This was all forseeable and in fact I personally told Conroy to his face what the issues would be, and I have seen one of those exact situation play out. In particular the lack of suitably skilled people to perform such a roll out.   If conroy was smart he would have employed a Don pernel, mic rocca or Kennedy  type to head up NBNco.  Instead he employed a sales engineer.  

This is going to end up being a very expensive rollout for which we will all pay, but I think I did mention that to this list at the start, only to be howled down.   Time to jump back into my box


Regards
 
Tim
 

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Robert Hudson 
  To: Tom Lanyon 
  Cc: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net 
  Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 6:55 PM
  Subject: Re: [AusNOG]Screw the NBN, says TPG: We'll do our own FTTB


  Of course it has an impact on the NBN. The NBNs price model is, amongst other things, dependant on scale and the number of premises connected. Reduce that number by a few million, and the per-port price will rise significantly, and those in less profitable areas ("the bush" as an example), won't have their pricing subsidised by the commercially lucrative connections (in "the city)".

  On 17/09/2013 6:47 PM, "Tom Lanyon" <tom+ausnog at oneshoeco.com> wrote:

    On 17/09/2013, at 6:09 PM, Jake Anderson <yahoo at vapourforge.com> wrote:
    > On 17/09/2013, at 5:14 PM, Nick Gale <nickgale at gmail.com> wrote:
    >> Are you saying we should have the ability for NBN competitors? If so why?
    >
    > Because if you don't then private enterprise will build a bunch of little fiefdoms where it will be uneconomical for anybody else to try to take market share with diminishing returns, and as a bonus all those areas in "the bush"       that the population as a whole is rather fond of won't get any services at all because its not "economic" to do so.

    None of which would be an issue, assuming that this is all occurring in parallel to the NBN, right?

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