The Libs plan is to connect a minimum of 25% of fixed lines to FTTH, the rest of us will have to pay for 80,000 street cabinets a few hundred thousand batteries for those cabinets, extra maintenance costs of those street cabinets, and also pay Telstra extra for the use of their copper from the cabinet to the home.
Same number of cabinets either way. Some batteries, yeah well every home needs one too for FTTH. Extra maintenance costs? Even if it is (you have a figure?) it's not going to be anywhere near the $50bill extra to connect to everyone's homes. As for paying Telstra, they've already been paid, $11bill. Even if they are paid, a few extra bucks per customer (or absorbed by retailers) ain't going to be the make or break. Your claim that you'll have to pay twice is just absurd. Viability of the Labor plan is a massive issue. Slower than expected rollout, much lower participation rate than expected, and exploding costs, it wouldn't have boded well if Labor weere allowed to continue with their plan. Would have ended up the same as most of their other policies of the last 6 years except far far more costly.
Why are we still arguing? Labor are finished anyway. Coalition's plan is in.
