A Rolls-Royce NBN is simply not commercially viable

25Aug10

This is an interesting opinion piece in The Australian regarding the cost of the NBN.  As much as it pains me to say so, I largely agree.

Here is the money quote, aimed outback to our new ‘kingmakers’:

“Without the long wait for fibre deployment, the Coalition’s plan will also bring greater bandwidth to the bush much faster.”

But a point that I think was missed, and has been missed in the NBN cost debate generally, are the indirect costs to consumers.  In order to take real advantage of the NBN, to the levels suggested by the rhetoric, folks are going to have to make significant investment in the equipment they have at home, which is against the current trends or low cost and mobility (i.e. Netbooks and phones).

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