The NBN’s huge fixed costs require that nearly every Australian household subscribe to the network in order for it to be financially viable. However, as more homes abandon the NBN in favour of wireless options, including 5G mobile and Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet system, the NBN’s fixed expenses are shared across a diminishing subscriber
  • Bluetreefrog@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 months ago

    NBN switched half of my town to fixed wireless at a higher cost than FTTN just to get ‘bums on seats’ to make coalition pollies look good/less bad.

    Let me put that another way.

    I got a worse service, at a higher cost to the government, AND a higher cost to me, just so it could happen 6 months earlier.

    I would have been happy to wait, and now FTTP is off the table for me.

    Fuck 'em.