DCC Broadband Has No Internet ?

A post to the Dunedin Linux Users Group Mailing List suggests that the Dunedin City Council Broadband initiative does not include and Internet connection:

The plan as I understand it is that users in the CBD pay $995 per month
to lease a dark fibre pair which makes point to point link between two
locations.
To light up service, you either do your own thing, or get your ISP to
pick up service from the other end.
It's not a loop. It's not active service. It isn't Internet. It isn't
a residential service.
In ChCh where the business model is the same, you can pay $1800 per
month for a Gbps of cross-town capped or $2500 uncapped. That gets you
as far as the Internet exchange in ChCh, which is doing very well. ISP
services are on top.

There will be businesses for which this is useful. An ODT article claimed that "Businesses back broadband vision". But an across-Dunedin link will not allow business to avoid ISP's restrictions and fees.
There is a comment on this issue by "farsighted" on the ODT website.