nbn faces $1.2bn hit from ‘coverage gap’, page-6

Yes - an investor who attended a mgmt pres said that mgmt were being conservative with the amount of households that would take up the offer of free wireless installation ie 50%.

My read of the AFR and SMH articles was that is clearly way to pessimistic and uptake is going to be much higher hence NBNco have to buy more spectrum. Furthermore Turnbull was quoted as saying the NBN is now authorised to take the least costly route to add more household. It has always been heavily pushed that wireless is far cheaper (and much quicker) to rollout than Fibre.