ISPs give up trying to convince NBN to lower wholesale pricing

The prolonged process to revise the NBN's special access undertaking (SAU) is almost complete, with most ISPs not happy with it, but ultimately just want to move on as they can see that NBN has no appetite for lowering its wholesale pricing. It's all but locked in now that every year NBN will increase the wholesale price based on the consumer price index, which ISPs will likely pass on to customers. This is really shit. Within 3 years time, assuming CPI hovers around 5%, a $99 plan (which is already twice what it should cost IMHO) will set you back $115 a month, with the price to go up indefinitely. Optus rightfully points out that "end-users who are in a position to consider alternatives may well do so or further downgrade their NBN services instead of taking up poor quality NBN services whose prices continue to increase over the life of the SAU".