...the take-up will depend on how the retail service providers market the offerings of extra speeds.
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The first FTTN areas have been in operation for five years and the entire FTTN network will soon have generated more revenue than it cost to build and run.
That is, the FTTN network will have paid for itself as well as being able to provide very good speeds to millions of Australians over the last five years and well into the future.
It is important to note that NBN Co is not proposing a full-scale overbuild and forced migration of FTTN areas to FTTP.
Rather, the FTTN network will continue to operate and will continue to meet the needs of many Australians for years to come.
NBN Co will proactively build a Local Fibre Network (LFN) from the existing node placing fibre deeper into neighbourhoods.
The fibre already built to the nodes as part of the FTTN build, known as the Distribution Fibre Network (DFN), will be utilised and incorporated to deliver new FTTP services.
Fibre lead-ins from street frontages to individual premises will only be built when customers order higher speed plans.
In this way, a significant portion of the investment made by NBN Co is closely linked to demand, and with a return on the investment into the expansion of FTTP services generated by the higher revenues associated with customers taking up NBN Co’s higher speed plans.
This on-demand model makes FTTP a cost-effective solution; however, NBN Co will continue its strategy of utilising other suitable technologies where it makes sense to do so.
