[AusNOG] $300 NBN Connection Fee for FTTP?

[Paul Brooks]

Ken - for a single house on a single block of land, she'll probably get whichever
technology the neighbours are allocated, which you can find out from the NBN website
lookup tool by moving the red pin around. If the block is in a FTTN area, then there's
likely to already be a copper trunk cable running down the street to service the
neighbours, so nobody would be 'laying new copper' down the street for that block of
land - just a new copper line from the house (once its built) to the street to connect
in to the nearest junction pit, just like any new house in the pre-NBN days.

I think the bit about FTTP being preferred for new homes applies to large property
developments of 100 dwellings or more.

This is actually the sort of query that NBN's call centre should be able to answer,
since she can't go through a RSP as she hasn't got the property or ordered a service
yet. (1800 687 626)

Paul.


On 21/03/2018 5:13 PM, Ken Sayers wrote:
> ​​
> My daughter is looking to buy a vacant block
> of land in Foster Victoria and build a house on it. Foster is pretty strange in that
> large parts of the town seem to be on NBN Fixed Wireless and other parts on FTTN,
> but if she builds a new house I understand, according to the NBN website, that FTTP
> is the preferred technology to build. It would seem pretty dumb to lay new copper in
> order to provide FTTN when my daughter will probably not want a landline phone. 
> It would be cheaper to just say 'connect via fixed wireless' but looking at Street
> View it looks like the fixed wireless tower is hidden behind trees.
> Is this what is likely to happen, that NBN Co run a dedicated fibre from the closest
> node to the new house? 
> Any tips appreciated.
> Regards Ken Sayers
>
> On Mon., 19 Mar. 2018, 22:57 Jason Leschnik, <jason at leschnik.me
> <mailto:jason at leschnik.me>> wrote:
>
>         So George, make sure that fee gets paid as it makes the NBN look $300
>         cheaper than it actually is.
>
>
>     The whole NBN debate has always confused me. Without offsetting the cost how
>     would either Government have afforded the NBN? The bill shock from $300 NDF is
>     annoying to say the least but I've spent >$300 on some pretty stupid things in
>     my life and I'm sure there are others who would've paid a lot more than $300 to
>     get FTTP/FTTN. 
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