Re: HFC
1. Connectivity to the NBN costs ISPs $17.50 per Mbps per month (it was $20 under the original Labor plan).
2. NBN Requires ISPs to be connected to all POIs regardless of whether they have any customes.
3. This means that ISPs have to charge somewhere north of $20 per Mbps/month to offer dedicated bandwidth.
4. Based on the prices I've seen (and paid). The highest costs for home broadband come in closer to $1 per Mbps per month.
If we apply a little bit of math to this, this means that ISPs are oversubscribing their lines by at least a factor of 20.
FTTN was stupid, not because it can't deliver the speeds it promised, but because it can't deliver the cost savings it promised. In the end it will end up being relatively close to what would have been paid for Labor's plan (which wouldn't have cost what they said it did either) for an inferior product.
The reason your connection sucks though is because the NBN Co charges ISPs too much for them to give you what you think you're paying for.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
