[AusNOG] FTTC

Beeson, Ayden abeeson at csu.edu.au
Thu May 2 08:04:30 EST 2019


That was my first thought too and I couldn't find a concrete figure per month for it, but I did find a document saying you were eligible for a free build on a 3 year contract (may be inaccurate/specific to that provider I found offering that, YMMV) so you'd basically just be paying the up-front build fee over time, but for those with bad connections that are desperate to get onto Fibre, that may be preferable.

Good to know there is another option there, even if it's unlikely most people can/will utilise it.

Cheers,
Ayden
 

On 2/5/19, 7:32 am, "Philip Loenneker" <Philip.Loenneker at tasmanet.com.au> wrote:

    Enterprise Ethernet is certainly a better product, but the costs aren't necessarily suitable for a residential customer, regardless of the possibility of a free build (which is not always the case).
    
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    Subject: Re: [AusNOG] FTTC
    
    On Wed, 1 May 2019, Beeson, Ayden wrote:
    
    > That is spot on, but I haven’t seen a single quote come back that was in the price range you would actually consider going ahead with.
    > 
    > Admittedly that was for FTTN -> FTTP upgrades, but still I always got the feeling those “choices” were priced to make it unaffordable to regular consumers on purpose, meaning that quote price is effectively sunk money.
    > 
    > I’ll be very interested to see what the FTTC -> FTTP quotes come back at, it’s a lot less fibre length to run but still requires a lot of the same types of work in the end so I’m not expecting much.
    
    $5100 https://whrl.pl/Rfme7I which is ridiculous although these posts from
    2016 https://whrl.pl/ReLT5w and https://whrl.pl/ReLVZj claim why it's expected.
    
    Really if you want fibre you may as well take advantage of the free builds on nbn enterprise ethernet at the moment than do a tech change.
    
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