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The application cost for an area is only $1000. Local councillors can be elected for as little 400 votes, so it isn't that hard to game the system.
NBN Co says 'ante-up' to fibre applicants
Want to know if you can get fibre to the home instead of the node? It'll cost at least $300 just to ask the question, under a new “Technology Choice Policy” published by NBN Co. The former “network extension” policy (which let satellite users ask about fixed wireless upgrades, and fixed wireless areas ask about fibre) was made …
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Saturday 14th March 2015 13:10 GMT mathew42
Low income stuffed under Labor's plan
> Meanwhile renters
Renters in the correct areas (e.g. those where people have high disposable income) who want FoD will simply have it on their check list and agents will negotiate with landlords.
> and those with lower disposable incomes are stuffed.
Those on lower disposable incomes are stuffed whatever happens. The result of Labor's plan is that 38% on fibre are connected at 12Mbps and a further 38% connected at 25Mbps. I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to estimate the proportion of those with low disposable income who are on the cheap plans versus the 24% on faster plans.
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Biting the hand that feeds IT
