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

[Paul Wallace]

So .. on that construction ... why do you we need to spend $37-90billion building the NBN in the cities in order to effectively 'tax' those people in order to subsidize the people in the bush?
Reference: (the profits made on the fibre-supplied premises will pay for)

... wouldn't it just be simpler to alternatively just institute a new tax & forget about the network build?

You'd have to expect the tax would cost much less than $37-90billion.

Heck the Howard Gov thought they could cover most of it off for just $900million. That was the amount they put up for the OPEL project.

That's 1/40 of the lowest estimate of the cost of the NBN!





From: Robert Hudson [mailto:hudrob at gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 9:28 PM
To: Paul Wallace
Cc: Tim McCullagh; ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Screw the NBN, says TPG: We'll do our own FTTB

On 17 September 2013 21:11, Paul Wallace <paul.wallace at mtgi.com.au<mailto:paul.wallace at mtgi.com.au>> wrote:

But Robert, if the point of exercise is to help people in the bush, many of which the NBNco wishes to  help via wireless and satellite, then fibre or copper has nothing to do with it.

The "many" you refer to is very few.  And what the NBN will offer there is still a damned site better than the complete mess that's currently available to them now.

And it has a lot to do with it - operating the fixed wireless and satellite services will cost a *lot* - and the profits made on the fibre-supplied premises will pay for that in such a way as those who do unfortunately miss out on fibre don't have to pay stupidly high fees to get something decent.
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