[LINK] One gigabit on NBN

[Kim Holburn]

So, you have to be lucky enough to have NBN fibre (sob) and then you might well have to pay the installation fee for whatever equipment needed upgrading and $20,000 a month.  

Doesn't sound like a bargain to me.

On 2013/Dec/08, at 4:37 PM, stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:

> One gigabit available on NBN this month
> 
> December 6, 2013. By Lucy Battersby
> <http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/one-gigabit-available-on-nbn-this-month-
> 20131206-hv4pg.html>
> 
> 
> NBN Co will start selling a one gigabit per second (1Gbps) broadband 
> service before the end of the year, but availability will depend on the 
> number of people willing to pay for the super fast speeds. 
> 
> The commercial-grade broadband service will travel at download speeds of up 
> to 1000 megabits per second [Mbps], also known as a gigabit, and upload 
> speeds of 400 Mbps. This is about 100 times faster than the average speeds 
> available to most households on the copper network today. 
> 
> An NBN Co spokesman confirmed on Friday the service "will be made available 
> to retail service providers by the end of the year", but that it was up to 
> retail service providers to decide whether they would sell it to customers. 
> 
> There were currently about 250,000 households and businesses within NBN 
> Co‚s fibre footprint that could potentially request the service. 
> 
> At least one carrier has already confirmed it would sell 1 Gbps plans, but 
> none of the retail providers contacted by Fairfax Media on Friday would 
> reveal their prices.
> 
> „Our plans to launch a gigabit service are still being finalised, but we 
> will add it to our offering,‚‚ iiNet‚s NBN product manager, Rachael 
> McIntyre, said. iiNet also owns TransACT and Internode.  
> 
> It may be some time before consumers know how much 1 Gbps would cost 
> because NBN Co charges its wholesale customers ˆ the retailers that sell 
> services to consumers ˆ a basic monthly access charge for each active 
> connection plus a ŒŒCVC charge‚‚. 
> 
> The CVC charge pays for the speed and capacity NBN Co supplies to each 
> retailer‚s customers within a fibre serving area. Charges increase as 
> consumers request faster services. 
> 
> For example, the wholesale cost of buying 100 Mbps from NBN Co was $38 per 
> month per premise for access, plus $2000 per area per month for the speed. 
> Supplying 1 Gbps would cost $150 per month for access, plus $20,000 for 
> speed, according to NBN Co‚s 2013-16 Draft Corporate Plan.   
> 
> Each carrier splits the cost among its customers in each area, usually 3000 
> premises, figuring not all of them would require the maximum speed at 
> exactly the same time. 
> 
> However, if only one premise out of 3000 wanted a 1 Gbps plan, that single 
> household or business may be asked to pay the monthly $20,000 CVC charge, 
> as Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull warned when he was in 
> opposition. 
> 
> "The reality is this: if you want to have a guaranteed one gig service, 
> your retail service provider will have to buy one gig of CVC for you and 
> that is gonna cost $20,000 a month," he said during a pre-election NBN 
> debate. 
> 
> Senior analyst at Informa Telecoms and Media, Tony Brown, said NBN Co‚s 
> wholesale charging model was still a concern for telcos and some were 
> hoping NBN Co might change it under the new government. 
> 
> He expects the 1 Gbps service would be a ŒŒniche service‚‚ marketed to 
> commercial customers, with only a handful of residential customers 
> interested in it. 
> 
> "The issue for retailers is, it is such a huge amount of bandwidth. Do you 
> want to risk putting all that bandwidth into the market place?" Mr Brown 
> said. 
> 
> The 1Gbps service was first considered in 2010 and announced earlier this 
> year.
> 
> In October, Google Fibre boss Kevin Lo said given access to 1Gbps services, 
> consumers and entrepreneurs would "rise to that occasion".
> 
> Cheers,
> Stephen
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