Individual Premises Switch – What is involved?
|Update April 2019 – This process has now changed. Please see the NBNCo Technology Choice Individual Premises Application Factsheet.
We often get asked how much will this cost. Unfortunately, it is difficult to answer as NBN is the only provider of the capability, and they ultimately set the price on a house by house basis based on a Design and Quote process.
Initial analysis has shown that as a community, if we collaborate together with the project, we can reduce costs to individual premises significantly.
Summary of Individual Premises Switch – NBN Technology Choice Program
Source: http://www.nbnco.com.au/connect-home-or-business/technology-choice-program/individual-premises-switch.html (as of Jan 2015)
A house in a suburban street with existing FTTN technology can apply for FTTP technology.A group of houses in a suburban street with existing FTTN looking to change to FTTP with an authorised representative.
To manage expectations regarding application eligibility, please review the following information that nbn considers with each application;
Individual Premises Switch cannot be used to bring forward the proposed installation schedule;In FTTN and FTTB areas, applications will only be processed once the originally planned network has been deployed to the premises;The extent to which Individual Premises Switch can be performed within nbn’s existing design and construction regime;The availability of third-party infrastructure and its relative cost;The timing of the application and proximity to already constructed nbn™ infrastructure.
Individual Premises Switch Financial Contribution
Price Adjustments
If nbn receives multiple Individual Premises Switch applications in the same location, this may result in lower infrastructure cost per applicant as there may be an opportunity to share the infrastructure.
For example, in a street serviced by Fibre to the Node (FTTN), the incremental cost of building Fibre to the Premises (FTTP) may include local fibre infrastructure, and the applicant will bear this cost. Subsequent Individual Premises Switch applications may be able to utilise this new local fibre infrastructure, which may reduce the cost of subsequent Individual Switches.
Below is an example of a scenario where price adjustments may occur:
Property 1 incurs the full cost of the switch from the closest fibre boundary.
Property 2 applies for an Individual Premises Switch prior to the completion of the construction for property 1. Property 2 pays for the cost of the new Switch plus part of the initial Switch cost for property 1. The applicant for property 1 receives a price adjustment on the original quote.
Property 3 applies for a Switch under Individual Premises Switch prior to the completion of the Switch for properties 1 and 2. Property 3 pays the cost of the new Switch plus part of the costs incurred for properties 1 and 2. The owners of properties 1 and 2 will receive a price adjustment on their last quote.
Price adjustments will only be assessed when subsequent Individual Premises Switch deposit payments are received prior to the construction completion of the original Individual Premises Switch.
It is important to note that nbn may only prepare quotes based on an individual request for connection. If there are multiple Individual Premises Switch applicants along the same route (in the same street or area), we may only be able to provide a firm (pro-rata) cost when we receive all relevant applicants’ deposits. We may then either:
recalculate payments;issue a price adjustment on further instalments if payments are incomplete;issue refunds if there are any overpayments as a result of subsequent accepted applications on the same route.
Summary of fees
Once an application is submitted it will be assessed for eligibility and an application fee is required to perform high level cost estimation.
The below table sets out a summary of the applicable fees for an Area Switch or Individual Premises Switch:
So does this mean that each individual premise will need to pay $330 + $330 + part of the area switch fee + building costs? Sounding very expensive!
We have been told (though not in writing) that the first fee will be waived as they have already done the initial costing. Each premises is required to pay $330 for a design and quote. We have already started trying to negotiate this fee to be distributed at the street level, however it is early days.
UPDATE – See http://www.gleneaglesestate.net/NBN/blog/2016/05/16/may-2016-update-technology-choice-program-gleneagles-estate/
Hi Steve
Is this estimate based on scenario 1 above or on the number of households intending to signup so far?
Regards
John F. Simmons
Hi John,
The calculator takes into consideration the methodology outlined above from NBN. If you are at the end of the ‘run’ (such as house 3 above) you pay in full the fibre deployment distance between houses 3 and 2, and the remaining distance to the node shared between houses 1 and 2 are shared between yourselves in a similar fashion.
This is actually a very fair way of calculating the costs (albeit complex at times), and NBN have agreed the methodology used int he costing estimator is in line with their policy, and that our cost estimates are a reasonable approximation.
We will work hard to ensure the best outcome is achieved for residents – and certainly those residents who register through the project will receive a significant discount on designing quote fees.
Thanks Steve
John
Bring it on! Great initiative. Can’t wait.
We have been successfully switched to NBN FTTN today. Download 20.1 Mbps Upload 25.6 Mbps. What is the next step? Cheers, David Evans
not sure of that upload speed – doesn’t sound right? Next step – stay tuned. Doing our best to try and get FTTP as an option for the estate.