[LINK] Fibre gets nimble: small telcos weaving fiber web

[Danny Yee]

On the other hand, we're _more_ urbanised than most other OECD
countries, including the US.  So it's possible that getting 98%
coverage for an NBN may be relatively harder here than in the US,
even while getting 90% coverage is relatively easier.

A programmer with the right data might be able to quantify this.
How many 5km radius circles are needed to "cover" 90% of Australia's
population?  How does that compare with other countries?  What happens
if we try to cover 95% or 99%?  Or we change the radius to reflect
different technologies?

Danny.

Richard Chirgwin wrote:
> Having spent some years wandering around Australia's population data, 
> the things that impress me are (1) we're big and (2) we're empty. We 
> have a handful of population agglomerations, and apart from that, we've 
> got less than 0.2 people per square km (ie, subtract the cities and 
> their landmass from the nation and its landmass, and that's what you get).