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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.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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 PartTimeZombie on Thursday June 14 2018, @09:39PM (3 children)

    by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Thursday June 14 2018, @09:39PM (#693195)

    ...society can organize itself strictly through voluntary exchange?

    Go on, tell us about that violently imposed monopoly again.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 15 2018, @04:37AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 15 2018, @04:37AM (#693331)

    Aud government passes law starting only the POS they built can be used.
    People bypass said POS and build their own GD telecommunications.
    Gov fines the naughty purple who dared fight the gov
    the free and mighty purple me with awesome cheap net access and horrible auto correct give the gov the bid
    the government officiant appointed natty people in blue arrest the aberrants

    there is your violence. Peaceful high speed Internet living geeks throw in jail by th Jr wicked nbn baking government

    • (Score: 2) by Pino P on Friday June 15 2018, @01:10PM

      by Pino P (4721) on Friday June 15 2018, @01:10PM (#693461) Journal

      People bypass said POS and build their own GD telecommunications.
      Gov fines the naughty purple who dared fight the gov

      In your ancap scenario, the government would only be doing the bidding of the non-subscribers over whose land the physical medium for "their own GD telecommunications" was pulled.

    • (Score: 2) by janrinok on Saturday June 16 2018, @06:58AM

      by janrinok (52) Subscriber Badge on Saturday June 16 2018, @06:58AM (#693873) Journal

      Peaceful high speed Internet living geeks throw in jail by th Jr wicked nbn baking government

      This might be an insightful comment - but I haven't got a clue because I don't know what it means. The usual language for debate here is any recognisable dialect of English. This isn't.