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IIRC, Australia has limited broadband options, they're expensive and data is expensive relative to other countries. Also, isn't data transiting outside of AU more expensive than intra-national data?

In the US, there's a 1 GbE variant of Comcast "cable modem" service called Xfinity that often has a 1000 GiB "data plan" (varying by state, some states have unlimited data) that imposes a charge per GiB beyond that. Where I use it, the network is all optical with copper from poles to customer. During power outages, it only lasts about a day... and we now have 3-6 day "public safety" outages in the summer.

Isn't telstra just riddled with stories of corruption over time?

https://www.channelnews.com.au/key-telstra-5g-partner-admits...

Telstra is the equivalent of Comcast here. They’re monipolies in large parts of the country so they can get away with a lot

And NBN's wholesale charges are comparable to what a retail ISP in a competitive market (e.g. Stockholm) charges for symmetric 10Gb/s FTTP.

https://www.itnews.com.au/news/nbn-co-puts-future-residentia...

You could run a lot of websites on that.

Yikes! I mostly work with small providers that don't have the same resources as the big guys so I'm dealing with networks that are Node + 7 or more actives (vs the N+0 or N+1 the big guys do now) and anything about about 200 modems is when we start planning for node splits.

Also prior to the NBN (wholesaler) taking over the network, "take rate" (number of homes actually connected to the cable) was ~30%. Changing a network designed around that to 80% is quite a task