FED:Govt releases NBN business plan

AAP General News (Australia)
12-20-2010
FED:Govt releases NBN business plan

(Reissuing to correct to megabits from megabites in fifth item.



- Total capital expenditure cost $35.9 billion



- Government investment $27.5 billion, paid back with a return over the life of the project.



- NBN expected rate of return 7.0 per cent



- NBN to raise $13.4 billion from capital markets from 2015



- NBN cost $24 per month for 12 megabits per second (mbps) download, one mbps upload.



- NBN assumptions based on 70 per cent take-up of service, estimating 12 per cent of
premises being unoccupied, 13 per cent using wireless products and five per cent using
existing fixed line networks.



- NBN will connect 93 per cent of homes, schools and workplaces with speeds up to one
gigabit per second.



- The network will cover four per cent of premises with a wireless services and three
per cent by satellite with speeds up to 12 mbps.



- Annual revenue forecast at $5.8 billion in 2021, $7.6 billion in 2025.



- Network construction to take nine and a half years with rollout peak of 5900 premises
a day during construction.



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