At-a-glance: What's in the NBN business plan?

A quick overview of the government's newly released business plan for the National Broadband Network.

- 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 megabites 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 usuing 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 srvices 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 5,900 premises a day during construction.


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