On 19Mar18, George Fong allegedly wrote: > So embarrassment. I should have known about this. Thanks for the responses > ppl.
A point that may not be obvious is that this newish fee is part of the policy change that came with Turnbull's MTM. The goal is to offload costs onto consumers to reduce the apparent cost of the NBN. Originally there was no such thing as a new development fee imposed on consumers - which is where your confusion may have originated. Similarly, another cost that has been offloaded onto consumers as part of the MTM is the cost of the NTD, more usually now a VDSL modem. There is no reason why the MTM version of NBNCo could not have continued direct funding of the NTD by providing a standard/managed/suported VDSL modem for FTTN/FTTC technology... just as it provides a fibre NTD for FTTP. But shuffling costs from NBNCo to consumers has political benefits. Between the modems, the RSP support implications and the new development fee, the MTM strategy has probably shuffled $2-3billion of indirect costs into direct costs on consumers and RSPs. A tidy sum when your goal is to make the apparent NBN cost appear lower, albeit at the expense of making the total cost higher. So George, make sure that fee gets paid as it makes the NBN look $300 cheaper than it actually is. Mark. _______________________________________________ AusNOG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
