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

[Andy Farkas]

On 15/05/2019 23:04, Jevan Pipitone wrote:

> I think it would be good have an option for a customer to be able to 
> pay for fibre to the premises (FTTP) to be installed

https://www.nbnco.com.au/residential/learn/network-technology/technology-choice-program

Costs a non-refundable fee of $330 to get a quote. They'll probably tell you
to sod off.

> I don't know how much it would cost, to install an optic fibre from 
> the node to the premises. 

You cannot get a fibre run from the node to your house. It has to go all the
way back to the FAN (a lot further than the node). More kilometers of fibre
means more $$. This is why it is so expensive.

> Maybe the government can subsidize the cost for people that want it, 
> to make it affordable.

Now I have to wipe the coffee off my monitor and keyboard.... thanks :)

-andyf