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duncanriley.com: NBN Numbers Part Two: why it may never cover its costs

  • Chris · 9 months ago
    "does anyone really believe that this will still be state of the art tech in 2038"

    It wouldn't surprise me that this will still be a very god solution in 2050. We are still using copper wires that have been around for 50+ years.

    For further reasoning why, see my blog post regarding this: http://www.chriswere.com/?p=129
  • Dan · 9 months ago
    One major assumption you're making here is that the NBN will exclude business access / participation. What happens to the costs when you factor those into the equation? OK, so large corporates in metropolitan areas may already have their own access (but so would households), but there must be hundreds of thousands of small businesses which could also benefit - normally paying rates higher than individual consumers.
  • Mike · 9 months ago
    Telstra will also lower their prices, so the take up rate could be slow.