[LINK] Broadband plan tipped to bring higher prices

[Frank O'Connor]

That's what the ABC gets for quoting stockbroking analysts.

Honestly ... the imagination of plants, an inability to think beyond 
this financial year and all the technical acumen of a block of soap 
suds.

These are not people I would have been approaching for a comment.

My 2 cents worth ...

1. The CURRENT average speed is probably a lot higher than 1Mbs.

2. My speed oscillates between 9 and 15Mbs.

3. 100Mbs will probably be a conservative requirement when the NBN 
has finally been built - 5 to 7 years down the track.

That said the fact that it contains elements of FTH rather than FTN 
... which augers well for future expandability, and seems a tad more 
forward thinking that the NBN that was originally tendered.

					Regards,

At 3:16 PM +1000 7/4/09, David Boxall wrote:
><http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/04/07/2537297.htm>
>>  Updated April 7, 2009 14:22:00
>>
>>  Market analysts say broadband prices are likely to rise, after the 
>>Government unveiled an amibitious new $43 billion plan to build a 
>>national fibre-to-the-home broadband network.
>...
>>  But analysts are astonished at the upfront cost and say they have 
>>concerns about the network's commercial viability.
>>
>>  "I've got no idea what's driving the Government to do this," Ivor 
>>Ries, an analyst with EL and C Baillieu Stockbroking, says.
>>
>>  "They're saying a network that will deliver 100 megabits per 
>>second, that would exceed current household consumption by a factor 
>>of 100 times
>...
>
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