nbn™ builder prioritises easy premises, because it must work like that

Prioritizing those that already have good internet

There is a huge benefit of the NBN for people that have no internet at all.

But so little for people with good ADSL that most would not switch to the NBN if they were not forced to by cutting their copper. (We know that as a fact from trials where they did not threaten to cut the copper.)

So what does the NBN prioritize? Those that do not really want the NBN.

It is the wrong KPI. Number of premises is a worthless metric. How many people with no or bad internet have been connected. That is the KPI that counts.

(And for the "Fraudband" screamers, it would have been as bad or worse under the FTTP plan. And that $42 billion costing was a fairy tale for small children.)

The low hanging fruit are incredibly important to connect as the project involves cross subsidies. If they wait for tpg to fibre up all the unit blocks in Sydney and Melbourne then those users won't be contributing to the network build into less commercially interesting regions. It's in essence just a usage based tax.

It doesn't cost anywhere near a dollar for Aus Post to deliver an envelope to my house, yet there are other houses where the effective cost could be hundreds of dollars. Yet we all benefit from being able to send mail to nearly everyone. In the same way, we all benefit from internet availability across the whole community.

Fttn and fttdp are effectively stop gap measures. They might scale for the next 5-10 years but at some point they will need to be replaced with fttp. By all means do a cost benefit comparison. Maybe fttn with a 5 year life allied faster rollout and ROI, and maybe we won't utilise the capacity of fttp before then, but the problem as i see it is a lack of forward thinking. They are only interested in costs and returns over budget estimates. If they built the harbour bridge today they would have made it 2 lanes each way and not bothered with the train line either.

Worth noting that Malcolm Turnbull wasn't criticising the approach rather he was raising the issue of misrepresentation of the costs by the previous government.

What a joke

I tell you, If I have to wait until 2019, while every house surrounding me has NBN, I'm gonna flip.

Literally we have all the cabling in place. It's cable btw (I'm in the NBN Redcliffe area). It's even live. We hooked up next door neighbours modem to it, and it sync'd and logged in with his details. And despite many complaints, and despite pressing for an investigation, we haven't gone anywhere. Still SC0. And no timeframe to make us RFS. Been fighting for 3 months now.