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| Thread ID: 144323 | 2017-09-15 10:05:00 | Fibre - is it worth it? | Tony (4941) | PC World Chat |
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| 1439216 | 2017-09-17 22:46:00 | There's always a bottleneck somewhere else .That was what prompted my original post. | Tony (4941) | ||
| 1439217 | 2017-09-17 23:06:00 | Free Fibre installs won't last forever. Get it when you can for free. it's a superior product, regardless of where the bottlenecks are. | wratterus (105) | ||
| 1439218 | 2017-09-17 23:21:00 | Free Fibre installs won't last forever. Get it when you can for free. It's a superior product, regardless of where the bottlenecks are.I'm not so sure. Where fibre is newly on the street I think connection will always be free, but maybe after a while new connections to old-ish fibre may cost. Then again if Chorus want to move people off copper then it is in their interests to make the transition as painless as possible. Your second point s quite valid though. | Tony (4941) | ||
| 1439219 | 2017-09-18 00:21:00 | I'm not 100% sure on the install situation long term, but logically, free installs can't last forever. The government is currently subsidizing installs - imagine if Joe bloggs lives 250m back from the road down a concrete driveway. Currently, he is able to get connected to Fibre for no cost - exactly the same as Dr Phil who lives next door, but his house is only 5m back from the footpath. Dr Phil's install would probably cost $1000. The other could potentially cost $15,000 or even more depending on how difficult is it to get the Fibre to the house, if the current conduit is damaged. Chorus can't absorb this cost if it's not being subsidized. I'd be interested to know what the actual story on this is long term. I've never been able to find a solid answer - it's probably a case of 'wait a few years after the final rollout is complete, check uptake percentages and make a decision from there'. |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 1439220 | 2017-09-18 00:23:00 | There could well be a connection fee in future, once the contract is finished and there's no more government money involved. Even as it is trust me the companies paying for your "free" connection are not making money off it. I'm not talking about the contractors doing the work but rather who's paying for them. The theory is they will make it back in the long term, but there is a lot of cost to recoup and I don't think anyone is making good money from installing the fibre. The project relies on a decent amount of uptake from customers to make back a good portion of the upfront install costs, adding in a connection fee would help a lot. I doubt they have even come close to breaking even yet. It could go either way, but a standard fee to cover part of the costs is a definite possibility somewhere down the track. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1439221 | 2017-09-18 06:33:00 | The government is currently subsidizing installs - imagine if Joe bloggs lives 250m back from the road down a concrete driveway. Currently, he is able to get connected to Fibre for no cost - exactly the same as Dr Phil who lives next door, but his house is only 5m back from the footpath. . Er no.... "We consider a standard installation to be a maximum of 200 metres between your boundary and our ETP on your property. " Chorus Website. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1439222 | 2017-09-18 08:05:00 | I'm not 100% sure on the install situation long term, but logically, free installs can't last forever. The government is currently subsidizing installs - imagine if Joe bloggs lives 250m back from the road down a concrete driveway. Currently, he is able to get connected to Fibre for no cost - exactly the same as Dr Phil who lives next door, but his house is only 5m back from the footpath. Dr Phil's install would probably cost $1000. The other could potentially cost $15,000 or even more depending on how difficult is it to get the Fibre to the house, if the current conduit is damaged. Chorus can't absorb this cost if it's not being subsidized. I'd be interested to know what the actual story on this is long term. I've never been able to find a solid answer - it's probably a case of 'wait a few years after the final rollout is complete, check uptake percentages and make a decision from there'. Try 6km down the road and fibre isn't even in the area so using 4G which is quite fast compared to the ADSL we had in Brightwater |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 1439223 | 2017-09-18 08:25:00 | Try 6km down the road and fibre isn't even in the area so using 4G which is quite fast compared to the ADSL we had in Brightwater Are you in your Tiny House now Gary? |
CliveM (6007) | ||
| 1439224 | 2017-09-18 22:09:00 | Not worth it for me personally at the moment. From Spark for the same price, I can only buy a fibre plan which would be significantly slower than my current VDSL, despite their continued efforts to upsell me on it. | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1439225 | 2017-09-18 23:24:00 | Er no.... " We consider a standard installation to be a maximum of 200 metres between your boundary and our ETP on your property. " Chorus Website. Sorry, 200m then. |
wratterus (105) | ||
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