Govt to introduce legislation for broadband tax

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The RBS Tax has been raised in several posts on this site:

An NBN Wiki

HOW THE NBN CONNECTIONS ARE COSTED: There are several costs that each RSP must pay to NBN Co for each connection they have to consumers. I have copied the following, and amended as needed, from a previous answer I made in a topic: AVC (Access Virtual Circuit) AVC (Access Virtual Circuit) is the way each subscriber has their traffic identified in the network. Access Seekers (normally your RSP) generally buy 1 AVC per subscriber they have. This is the first part of the NBN Co Wholesale pricing…

Should the NBN be Sold? And if the NBN is sold what Next for the consumer?

The SMH continues it’s speculation around the future ownership of the NBN. This article attempts to link the options to a future Labour led Federal Govt. It might support a Telstra based take over as financially less pain than sale in an open market. Future NBN ownership in this option would depend on how Telstra was restructured. Telstra’s time line for it’s current proposed restructure and the NBN Co’s time line to be all done and profitable are noted as coinciding in 2022. Uninformed thin…

NBN Co floats its own 'Netflix tax'

Perhaps we also need to also acknowledge the other ‘elephant in the room’. The RBS or Regional Broadband Scheme. It might also be about to add a further $7.10 per month per connection to the cost of internet, subject to legislative approval? The great mystery here is whether the $7.10 has already been built into the NBN costings. That was the claim of the Government when the legislation was first raised. It appears to be smoke and mirrors with the politics. The NBN Co’s Financial reports, A…

Telecommunications Customer Service Guarantee

Trying to make head or tail of this. The focus of the article is rural/regional, but the whole nation will be affected. It’s supposed to be an integrated package, but there seem to be an awful lot of bits. USO, USG, RBS, SIP - WTF?

Telecommunications Customer Service Guarantee

The Broadband Tax has been on the books to have it made law for about 2 years. It has been slow progress getting it to be formally passed into law. I guess you already know what the other parts are but in case others don’t: USO is to be made into the USG Simply put the Universal Service Obligations (USO) was the previous obligation to provide an equitable connection service and previously Telstra were the USO carrier. From the ACMA site "The universal service obligation (USO) is the obligat…