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Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN

posted by cmn32480 on Thursday June 14 2018, @01:06PM   Printer-friendly
from the golden-rules-make-golden-fools dept.

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Once again the flailing Australian National Broadband Network is in the news with a couple in Melbourne being quoted up to 1.2 million dollars to connect to the NBN. The primary reason for this is the the house in question is seven kilometres of fibre would be needed to connect the property. With the copper network being switched off around Australian, even in places where it is still viable, the only option is to switch to the NBN unless a competing network already exists. The NBN has stated that it can cost $30,000 to run fibre for a "few hundred metres". It is getting to the point where it can be cheaper just to move house if the internet is bad.

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  • (Score: 2) by Aiwendil on Thursday June 14 2018, @02:40PM

    by Aiwendil (531) on Thursday June 14 2018, @02:40PM (#692935) Journal

    Thanks, it made me bother to skim the FA (STFA?). Seems like NBN selects really crappy solutions (or rarely upgrades them).

    Also made me skim the unbt website, seems like they have a thing priced ad about 1k usd (again, no idea if pair or single) that can push about 1Gb/s for about 100km with a latency below 1ms.

    Kinda makes me wonder he could just buy a 2x2m plot at nearest place that already has a hookup and ask NBN to hook that in and install a relay station there.

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