NBN Co opens peace talks with Simon Hackett

The debate about NBN Co's pricing model in the aggregate was kicked off in late March when Hackett gave a landmark speech describing the model as "insane" for small internet service providers, warning that none would survive their walk through the "valley of death" transition from the current copper network to the fibre future envisioned by the Federal Government.

The succeeding weeks

Over the succeeding weeks, NBN Co made a number of public attempts to furthermore explain its pricing model, going into great detail about why it had chosen the specific mix, as so then as publishing an online calculator that allows users to calculate projected wholesale costs for providing services to its planned network.

Government incentives and pent-up demand following the global financial crisis helped the Australian video conferencing market to increase earnings by 33 per cent in 2010.