{"id":11856,"date":"2021-02-22T09:58:22","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T22:58:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=11856"},"modified":"2021-02-22T09:58:22","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T22:58:22","slug":"a-full-fttp-nbn-rollout-couldve-been-10b-cheaper-than-the-libs-claimed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/a-full-fttp-nbn-rollout-couldve-been-10b-cheaper-than-the-libs-claimed\/","title":{"rendered":"A full FTTP NBN rollout could&#8217;ve been $10b cheaper than the Libs claimed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former PM Malcolm Turnbull stood on a soapbox in 2013 spraying the Australian public with tales of delivering the NBN faster and doing it cheaper using a multi-technology-mix (MTM) strategy instead of the originally proposed fibre to the premise model.<\/p>\n<p>His argument was then the subject of a strategic review of which the savings were conveniently redacted. The justification of the time is that they needed to remain secret in order to <em>&#8220;negotiate or renegotiate any associated contracts&#8221;<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/27125623\/20171127123757_nbn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7454\" src=\"https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/27125623\/20171127123757_nbn-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/27125623\/20171127123757_nbn-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/27125623\/20171127123757_nbn-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/27125623\/20171127123757_nbn-770x513.jpg 770w, https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/27125623\/20171127123757_nbn-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/27125623\/20171127123757_nbn-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/27125623\/20171127123757_nbn-380x253.jpg 380w, https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/27125623\/20171127123757_nbn-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/27125623\/20171127123757_nbn-1160x773.jpg 1160w, https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/27125623\/20171127123757_nbn.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today those figures have finally surfaced with The Ages &amp; SMH revealing that the cost of fibre installs were predicted to drop under a redesigned plan.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Savings worth $850 to $1150 were estimated to be achievable for each existing home attached with fibre under the radically redesigned plan. These savings included the use of more cost-efficient network architecture and materials worth $300 to $450 per home or business, a further $50 to $100 from cost-efficient construction techniques and $500 to $600 from increased labour productivity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Turnbull, still claims the MTM was the right approach and without it our shift to remote working from 2020&#8217;s COVID-19 pandemic would&#8217;ve been impossible with his belief being a fibre rollout would still be in progress today.<\/p>\n<p>You know what they say about opinions though Malcolm?<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/politics\/federal\/secret-figures-show-full-fibre-nbn-may-have-cost-10-billion-less-than-claimed-20210221-p574gj.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Sydney Morning Herald<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former PM Malcolm Turnbull stood on a soapbox in 2013 spraying the Australian public with tales of delivering the NBN faster and doing it cheaper using a multi-technology-mix (MTM) strategy instead of the originally proposed fibre to the premise model.\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":5990,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"A full FTTP NBN rollout could've been A$10b cheaper than the Libs claimed","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[94,181],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11856"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11859,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11856\/revisions\/11859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}