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LL: "private capital wouldn't touch it eh . how would such a thing be funded or started without a body set up for the purpose ?
"David Teoh’s TPG Telecom last week announced that it will connect fibre to capital city apartment buildings. The company already has 3,800 kilometres of fibre connecting businesses to the internet; now it’s planning to move into high-density residential, which is the most profitable."
@monman12 wrote:LL: "private capital wouldn't touch it eh . how would such a thing be funded or started without a body set up for the purpose ?
"David Teoh’s TPG Telecom last week announced that it will connect fibre to capital city apartment buildings. The company already has 3,800 kilometres of fibre connecting businesses to the internet; now it’s planning to move into high-density residential, which is the most profitable."
Explain ? i'm certain its you john who said private captal wouldn't touch it, as it was intended to go into regions telstra considers unviable because of cost. NBN CO would. a state owned company is the only way the remote unserviced areas would be serviced.
@monman12 wrote:LL: "private capital wouldn't touch it eh . how would such a thing be funded or started without a body set up for the purpose ?
"David Teoh’s TPG Telecom last week announced that it will connect fibre to capital city apartment buildings. The company already has 3,800 kilometres of fibre connecting businesses to the internet; now it’s planning to move into high-density residential, which is the most profitable."
simple economics of scale
@monman12 wrote:LL: "private capital wouldn't touch it eh . how would such a thing be funded or started without a body set up for the purpose ?
"David Teoh’s TPG Telecom last week announced that it will connect fibre to capital city apartment buildings. The company already has 3,800 kilometres of fibre connecting businesses to the internet; now it’s planning to move into high-density residential, which is the most profitable."
precisely. back to ignoring the deadspots as before. NBNCO were giving telstra access to the end of line NBN towers too. for mobile reception. back to profit-driven only business only i guess, all of those national voters will be happy
(though i doubt they'll even notice, i mean how could they ? they still elect nationals)
Yes LL private industry was not prepared to cover 98% of the population, because of the expected return on the capital expenditure. However , in 2008 Telstra said it would commit $5 billion of its own cash to building a network which would cover 90% of the population, obviously urban centres.
I repeat, I would not touch NBN shares in a fit if it went "public", which is ironic considering it currently could be described as an erratic NBN snail munching away at the public lettuce.
I notice that a couple of those I debate this topic with, have still not indicated what Internet speeds they need, as opposed to what they want.
Perhaps TPG will be allowed to service city apartments from its current fibre backbone free from the monopoly legislation of the current NBN (outside of the 1km 2010 rule).
