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> Ditching FTTP for FTTN while increasing in price This claim is very misleading when you consider that FTTP NBN's price was never properly realized. In their
by shard972 10y ago
> Ditching FTTP for FTTN while increasing in price
This claim is very misleading when you consider that FTTP NBN's price was never properly realized. In their last progress report they were over budget and behind schedule despite hiring contractors to work overtime in the months before the election.
When you also consider they already moved the goalposts back a few times, it would be ludicrous to believe that FTTP would have been completed without going well over budget.
- boyter 10y agoActually I agree with you, on the basis that all large government projects are over budget and late. However, when you sell an election on 29+ billion, fully costed ready to go, everyone online with 25 mbit by 2016 and then once in power, adjust to 56+ billion by 2020 you should be hit with the same laws that apply to bait and switch advertising. Updated my original comment to reflect this.
- jaimex2 10y agoFTTP would have been cheaper long term, they bought millions of dollars worth of old copper from Telstra and Optus which needs replacing and has maintenance cost's far greater than anything fibre. They also bought Optus's old HFC network (cable) to rebrand it as NBN ( Which Optus was previously sued for branding as NBN tech).