[LINK] NBN chief seeks advice of US tech giants as broadband technology debate rages

[Frank O'Connor]

Mmmm …

As it stands, most estimates nowadays are that the MTM NBN will redeem less than $30 billion of its capital costs when on-sold to a gullible private industry. Thats a $30 billion capital loss on the books after sale.

Personally I doubt whether it’s worth even $20 billion …. but a non-gullible Telstra or other big player may be able to depreciate it quickly on their books … and hey, Telstra has gotten $11-15 billion out of the government for the initial build anyway - for ducts and services - before they have to go to/build fibre as they should have done in the first place. 

Hey, the telcos will have a clientele (the Australian public) trapped in 20th Century network performance envelope … but that won’t worry them.

Mr Broadband is building us a $60 billion White Elephant that everybody seems t think is a colossal waste of money … and all for politics. All because the MTM ‘idea' (and I use that term loosely) isn’t Labor’s.

Sadly, if this matter is allowed to die in the coming long election campaign nobody will be held accountable for this debacle - and Mr Broadband really deserves some real public attention for this waste of public monies and ever so damaging politicking.

Just my 2 cents worth …
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> On 22 Mar 2016, at 6:41 AM, Paul Brooks <pbrooks at layer10.com.au> wrote:
> 
> By building for the far-off future - which doesn't require significantly more upfront cost - makes it more likely to make a financial return, not less likely, by extending the time period they can receive wholesale rental revenue by a  decade or more.
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> -------- Original Message --------
> From: David Boxall <linkdb at boxall.name>
> Sent: 21 March 2016 8:53:16 pm AEDT
> To: Link <link at anu.edu.au>
> Subject: [LINK] NBN chief seeks advice of US tech giants as broadband technology debate rages
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> <http://www.afr.com/technology/web/nbn/nbn-chief-seeks-advice-of-us-tech-giants-as-broadband-technology-debate-rages-20160318-gnlxcp>
>> He said those advocating for NBN to build for the far-off future were 
>> ignoring the fact that it was set up as an enterprise required to make 
>> a financial return, rather than as a public service.
> 
> Can't have government providing services, can we?
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