The Sleeping Giant wrote:Coalition will scrap the connection from the node to your house. I guess when you only do a third of the job, it will be quicker and cheaper. If you want the nbn, then under the coalition you will need to pay for the connection to your house. Price I have heard is over a grand.
I've never needed the NBN for my purposes, but I'll take it for the extra speed if it is there, and the connection is free, so long as I can get a plan and VOIP service that won't cost much more than my existing deal for ADSL2+ with Internode. If those conditions are not met I can live without the extra speed.
It's no big deal to me...
FTTN would, I assume, stop at the local exchanges, and my home service would then run on the copper it already runs on.
The cost of renegotiating the deal with Telstra may make it less viable to pull the plug on FTTH though now the previous deal has been done, at least in some areas.
(Especially since the copper will need replacing in time anyway.)
I certainly wouldn't pay to run an NBN connection from the node, nor even from the street frontage which is 50 metres from my house.
So far the NBN Co are still promising me a free connection
to the house.
If that is still on the table at the time, regardless of who is in government by then, I'll look at taking it...