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Coming into the job six years ago, ACCC chair Rod Sims was thrust into the existing NBN mess, with a new report which we spoke about in our interview, including defining what NBN success really means.

Can a government organisation (the ACCC) solve the NBN mess created by the government organisation that caused it (NBN Co), or will we just end up with 29 recommendations spanning a wide range of competition and consumer issues in communications markets?

Contention ratios alone would not be enough for consumers to make a judgement as to which ISP would provide sufficient bandwidth for their needs, an academic claims.

The chief architect behind TransACT has suggested that if NBN Co were to make contention ratios available to consumers, it would help them choose retail service providers who could supply the speeds they sought.

Vodafone Hutchison Australia claims that the key issue in high prices for NBN connections is that the relative price of the AVC and CVC is weighted too heavily towards a reliance on the price of the latter.

NBN Co chief executive Bill Morrow says the company, which is rolling out Australia's national broadband network, has an image problem, but has ruled out any imminent pricing changes.

New Zealand can offer its residents 1Gbps broadband plans for NZ$130 (A$120) a month because the access virtual circuit (AVC) charges are low, the ISP MyRepublic says.

NBN chief executive Bill Morrow has copped a barrage of criticism from the Information Technology Professionals Association, with his recent statements on the network being described as "absurd" and "stupendously ignorant and arrogant".

Telco voice solutions specialist MyNetFone has called for the NBN to level the playing field for mid-size telcos in Australia by changing the wholesale pricing model and reducing the network access points.

A report quotes iiNet CEO saying no-one anticipated the massive data growth caused by Netflix, but is this credible?

Internode's Simon Hackett still stays CVC prices are too high and must come down because the cost overheads are too high.