[AusNOG] NBN CO told to pretty itself up for bankers by 2017

[Jake Anderson]

Probably not, I think it means the nbn will basically be sunk.
it'll be 2016 before they could get FTTN really going at speed assuming 
there are no issues.
That gives them 1 year of volume rollout before they will need to start 
the process of raising private debt, I don't think they will be getting 
very good terms particularly given the time-scale before they will need 
more funding to replace the FTTN network. Particularly if they let TPG 
roll their FTTB it'll pave the way for telstra and optus to do the same 
and they are going to have fibre within 1km of pretty much everywhere 
that matters.


Rolling ftth doesn't seem to be progressing at all well. Verison did it 
in the USA to the same number of premisis in a shorter time and for less 
cost so it seems to be physically possible.
If they focused on getting a core network of profitable FTTH in place 
they could perhaps leverage that asset to raise funds to roll it out 
further, or possibly just self fund a slower rollout into less 
profitable areas, but that won't happen if its sold off first.



On 14/05/14 11:27, Nicholas Meredith wrote:
> Does this mean there could be hope of a FTTH deployment after all? Not 
> sure what to expect from NBN Co any more.
>
> -ndm
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> Kind Regards,
>
>
> Nicholas Meredith
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> On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 10:45 AM, staticsafe <me at staticsafe.ca 
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>     "NBN CO told to pretty itself up for bankers by 2017"
>     http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/14/oz_gummint_sets_nbn_eol/
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