NBN Co’s financial results and commercial expectations have collided with a Labor government that insists it must radically revise its pricing models and work in co-operation with telcos. How likely is that?
and included wholesale price rises of CPI plus 3 per cent for high-speed plans.
The ACCC, for example, has traditionally been concerned about the cost of entry-level prices for people on lower speeds – even though changing technology with superfast speeds has made this issue far less significant.Rowland told the ACCC that in her experience as a parliamentarian, Australians were not complaining about the price of broadband relative to other cost pressures but were primarily concerned with quality and service.
But the NBN faces ever-increasing competition from ultra-fast mobile services, and from companies such as Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites, already offering much superior speeds to regional Australia.Wider consumer frustrations with download speeds that didn’t come close to maximum speeds promised on broadband plans have improved over the past two years, according to the ACCC’s latest report also released on Tuesday.
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