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

[Kim Holburn]

I seem to recall, you had to pay a fee of some $600 just to apply to get a quote.  The quote included all the ancillary equipment required to put in FTTP.  Apparently there was no provision for this in the nodes.  So, backhaul, passive switch boards and bringing fibre to you home.  The first person in a nodal area to ask for FTTP had to pay for everything to their closest node.  After that it got a bit cheaper.  especially for houses passed by the fibre.  Some of the quotes were many thousands.

https://www.lightningbroadband.com.au/news/nbn-technology-switch-cost-lbb2299/ <https://www.lightningbroadband.com.au/news/nbn-technology-switch-cost-lbb2299/>

 The highest quote was: $217,600 

> “As with any construction project, the cost for nbn Technology Choice depends on individual site specifics. A single end user applying for a Technology Choice upgrade will typically pay a significant amount, particularly if theirs is the first request in the area. In order to provision an FTTP service for one end user, significant, complex work is often required at the exchange in order to transmit an FTTP service.”



> On 2019/May/16, at 1:49 pm, David Boxall <linkdb at boxall.name> wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 
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