[AusNOG] NBN’s $800 million Optus network might need to be rebuilt

[Greg Anderson]

I am blowing up about the 2.5 years it has taken them to achieve nothing.

On 26 November 2015 at 13:00, David Connors <david at connors.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Nov 2015 at 08:42 David Hughes <david at hughes.com.au> wrote:
>
>> From my (sometimes faulty) memory I recall a payment of similar scale in
>> NBN 1.0 to Optus as compensation for decommissioning their HFC network and
>> using NBN as the access network for those services.   I guess at least this
>> time NBN got something out of the deal.
>>
>
> Your memory is correct. They were being paid 800ml before to decommission
> and bin the HFC network. The renegotiated deal was 800ml which included the
> HFC assets at no additional cost.
>
> I don't understand the media blow up over this.
>
>    1. Replacement of all CMTSs was a given under the HFC plan and the
>    deal for that was already signed with Arris some time ago.
>    2. Node splitting was a given also.
>
> David.
>
>
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