Australia’s free-to-air and pay-television networks face an assault from internet competitors, as the NBN gets up and running over the next five years.The National Broadband Network business plan, released yesterday, reveals the fledgling network is banking heavily on a “build it and they will come” philosophy, with internet protocol television and video-on-demand expected to emerge in Australia in the next one to five years and NBN Co labelling their facilitation as a priority.”NBN Co’s strategy is based on the expectation that as higher bandwidth becomes available, applications that take advantage of that bandwidth will be developed,” the NBN plan says.To read this report in The Australian in full, see:
www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/free-to-air-pay-tv-face-nbn-assault/story-fn59niix-1225974169098Also see:Shortage of skills may blow out wages
Skills shortages threaten to slow the rollout of the National Broadband Network.And a construction cost blowout could slash already modest expected returns from the project.According to a sensitivity analysis by the government-owned NBN Co, high construction costs threaten to reduce returns on the project from the headline figure of 7 per cent to 6.3 per cent.
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Free-to-air, pay-TV face assault from Australia’s broadband network
Australia’s free-to-air and pay-television networks face an assault from internet competitors, as the NBN gets up and running over the next five years.