[LINK] One gigabit on NBN

[Richard]

The SMH's "$20,000 per month" presumes zero contention on the CVC - a 
gigabit clear channel.

At 20:1 contention ratio, it'd be $1000 a month.

Contention ratios are set not by NBN Co but by the retailer.

RC

On 8/12/13 6:00 PM, Kim Holburn wrote:
> 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
>> Loosley
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