Rebasing Expections, page-54

Interesting Read:
http://www.nbnco.com.au/blog/the-nbn-project/setting-the-facts-straight-on-fibre-to-the-node.html

Suggests that the eventual path would be changing all FTTN to FTTC but can't do it immediately due to customer commitments and redesign costs etc.
First 700K premises essentially a trial for determining "Real world" cost of installation.
Also identifies a potential Ceiling of 4m Prem.
"If we find out down the track that FTTC is actually coming in at an additional $500 per premises across four million premises then that’s another $2 billion added to the cost of deploying the network that we would have to find."

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