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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: 3, Interesting) by Pino P on Thursday June 14 2018, @07:25PM (2 children)

    by Pino P (4721) on Thursday June 14 2018, @07:25PM (#693126) Journal

    if you don't like it, sell your property to someone who does like it.

    To whom, and for what purpose would the buyer use it? Now that it has become more common for farmers to upload big files to crop advisers, anyone who would use the land for agriculture would need the same upload capability.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 15 2018, @01:10AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 15 2018, @01:10AM (#693283)

    If your business needs an upgrade, then pay for that upgrade.

    What could your point possibly be?

    Need to pay for that upgrade? Well, you've got 2 choices:

    • Prove your request is warranted by getting people to pay you voluntarily more money for your product.

    • Whine and dine the local guns politicians, urging them to steal money from others on your behalf.

    I know on which choice I want society to be built.

    • (Score: 2) by Pino P on Friday June 15 2018, @01:16PM

      by Pino P (4721) on Friday June 15 2018, @01:16PM (#693465) Journal

      My point is that the finding of unaffordability of an upgrade dramatically reduced the value of two things: the value of this parcel of land to a prospective buyer, and the value of farming experience to the landowners who now have to retrain for an urban job.