Any SS members got NBN

[Ouch]

Now you have to decide..Do you want model red or blue????

Regards Errol 43

It's not as minor as simply choosing between red and blue. It's choosing whether to arrive in the digital age in a futuristic future-proof F1 car or a rubbish Yugo car from the Soviet era that needs major repairs every 2 years.

 

[Roswell Crash Survivor]

I'm on Cable internet, and my ISP has been passed down the cost of a "NBN-related levy" possibly relating to use of electrical power poles. The monthly bill includes this levy billed separately from the service I am receiving.

So in other words, I'm out of pocket each month to subsidise what is a supposed to be 'commercially-viable' service that I never asked for, and is not currently using.

 

[sammysilver]

i'm on fibre
108mbps down ~38 up ( supposed to be 100/40)
$110 for 1 TB - 500gb peak, 500 offpeak, includes phone rental

was paying $120 before for ADSL2 200gb, including phone rental

Can't complain really...FOr me its great, download soooo fast, don;t have to really wait to watch what I want now.

Check your WiFi modem, it probably only transmits at 48mps which means your 108mps download is a furphy.

 

[SilverBrumby]

I'm with you silverbrumby. We are on the max GB we can get but still have maxed it out the last 2months

When I max my GB the service gets shaped and I swear it is slower than dial-up. Only site that works is SilverStackers!

 

[jparrie]

People here saying the price is comparable or cheaper, but am I really going to get at least 250Gb download plus a phone for $45 a month, which is what I pay now?

 

[Big A.D.]

A friend has NBN, but they're out int he middle of no-where. When I compare what they have to what I pay for in Sydney, I prefer what I pay for.

The ironic thing is you're paying for his NBN.

No he isn't.

NBNCo is a business. The government borrows money to invest in it but the NBN will generate a return greater than the borrowing cost i.e. it will make a small profit.

 

[AngloSaxon]

A friend has NBN, but they're out int he middle of no-where. When I compare what they have to what I pay for in Sydney, I prefer what I pay for.

The ironic thing is you're paying for his NBN.

No he isn't.

NBNCo is a business. The government borrows money to invest in it but the NBN will generate a return greater than the borrowing cost i.e. it will make a small profit.

Yes I am and we all are until any future profit is made, at some distant time in the future that is extending ever further outwards the more we learn about cost over-runs and delays to installation.

I'm not bothered to go looking for it but I bet the dividend yield for NBN Co is atrocious.

 

[Big A.D.]

The ironic thing is you're paying for his NBN.

No he isn't.

NBNCo is a business. The government borrows money to invest in it but the NBN will generate a return greater than the borrowing cost i.e. it will make a small profit.

Yes I am and we all are until any future profit is made, at some distant time in the future that is extending ever further outwards the more we learn about cost over-runs and delays to installation.

I'm not bothered to go looking for it but I bet the dividend yield for NBN Co is atrocious.

The return is going to be about 7%.

Not bad for a government backed business, terrible for a private operator.

The project involves re-cabling basically every building in the entire country.

It's monumental task, it won't be finished as fast as anyone would like it to and some stages will take longer than other stages. Negotiating the use of Telstra's ducts delayed a lot of things at the beginning for example, but it will save loads of time of the course of the whole project.

 

[bordsilver]

The return can be whatever the govt mandates it to be. Hypothetically they could create a monopoly service provider that can charge any price it wants, forcibly close whole divisions of existing businesses, prevent advertising of competing technologies and raise the cost of any competitors in a myriad of ways