[LINK] ‘We have been cheated’: Australia's biggest cities dudded with inferior NBN

[David Boxall]

On 15/05/2019 11:21 pm, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> 
> I understand it is quite expensive - hundreds of dollars just to get a quote.
> 
It's been a while since I checked. IIRC, there was an application fee of 
several hundred dollars, then a design fee that could run to thousands. 
Quotes were typically many times commercial rates.
https://delimiter.com.au/2016/02/24/nbn-co-estimates-up-to-10-5k-for-300m-of-fibre-in-newcastle-cbd/

That might have changed, but I gather take-up of NBN quotes is very low. 
IIRC, Senator Urquhart asked about it once, but never got an answer.

David Boxall                    |  Australia's problem isn't fake news,
                                 |  it's fake government.
http://david.boxall.id.au       |                        --Ross Gittins
                                     Sydney Morning Herald 27 March 2017