NBN RECKONING COMING? AUSSIE BROADBAND IS THE LATEST TO WARN THE NBN NEEDS TO REBALANCE ITS PRICING

摘要

Aussie Broadband’s Managing Director Phillip Britt has warned the industry needs a rapid rebalance in NBN’s wholesale pricing to avoid uncertainty over the next two years. It follows strong advice from Telstra to NBN Co to reduce the costs and complexity to providers and consumers. My observation is that rather than NBN Co undertaking a radical simplification pricing structure for the NBN Co per effective industry demands, and as happened in other countries, the NBN Co keeps needing to introduce special deals because they just won’t do the right thing and fix the pricing situation once and for all, per industry suggestion. The high prices are obviously earning NBN Co more than enough money and profit from everyday Australian users that it can afford to pay tens of millions in bonuses to people that are supposed to already be paid to do their job. So, the strong statement from Aussie Broadband MD Phil Britt below isn’t his first such statement, but instead the newest, following the changes NBN Co made earlier this year for providers to offer new deals to customers, with Telstra not the only other provider to have and express similar views.