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Hingdog, according to the coalition's own paper, their version will be out date in 10 years for about a $30 billion spend.

Compared with 50+ year life for only $7.5 billion extra.

For less than the cost of the PPL, the job can be done correctly first time round.


More and more business will be home based, and more and more employment will be home based.

Not everyone who will work from home will be running their own business, a large number will be employed by business to work from home as well.

Business will become less reliant on a single office\business location, and will become a network of locations consisting of a network of business and home workers.
Thus allowing more flexibility in working hours and times, and also allowing people in low employment opportunity areas to compete in the workforce market place.


This is just one of the many aspects of the benefits of improving our communications network.


The Coalition claimed the cost of connecting each home was in the area of $3,600, but the current actual cost reported to the NBN parliamentary joint committee was between $2,200-$2,500 to connect each home.

There is also an additional $700m to $1b in extra maintenance for the copper each year under the Coalition plan, (about $7b to $10b extra costs over 10 years).

And this does not include the ongoing maintenance and repairs to the 40,000 to 60,000 street cabinets and the 320,000 to 720,000 batteries for those street cabinets.

The Coalition's plan will not be cheaper and it will be a false economy that would quickly dissolve any perceived initial savings.



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VDSL – Extending Copper Beyond Usability


Over the last year or so, Malcolm Turnbull has attempted to sell VDSL via FTTN. Through this time I have personally brought up with Malcolm the drawbacks of going with VDSL ( or even VDSL2) in a FTTN (Fibre to the Node) configuration. These all seem to have been dismissed, along with any rational debate on fibre vs xDSL.