13. Benefits and challenges to ISPs
Benefit: Extended reach to remote areas to compete
with Telstra
Benefit: Level playing field in terms of wholesale costs
Benefit: Faster services in existing black spot and
under-serviced broadband areas
Challenge: Fixed minimum wholesale input costs (high)
Challenge: Telstra benefits financially from NBN
migration and has mobile network as well
Challenge: anti cherry picking legislation
14. Benefit: greatly improved broadband infrastructure in some markets
Benefit: the end of the digital divide
Benefit: NBN infrastructure deployed to brownfield sites at no cost
Challenge: possible disruption during installation and active NBN hardware will
take up space and power in each room
Challenge: limited control over content, impacting church based colleges or
universities
Challenge: greenfield cabling costs
Benefits & challenges to student housing providers
