[LINK] The PLAN, and broadband speeds?

[Linda Rouse]

Thought this might interest Linkers:
http://www.ftthcouncil.org/
"The Fiber-to-the-Home Council is a non-profit organization 
established to help its members with planning, marketing, 
implementing and managing FTTH solutions. Council membership includes 
municipalities, utilities, developers, and traditional and 
non-traditional service providers, creating a cohesive group to share 
knowledge and build industry consensus on key issues surrounding 
fiber-to-the-home.

The mission of the Council is to educate, promote and accelerate 
fiber-to-the-home and the resulting quality of life enhancements. Its 
objectives are to supply a consistent and accurate view of FTTH, 
promote FTTH market development, and to be recognized by the industry 
as the fiber-to-the-home resource."

Maybe we need to start such a group is OZ...
regards
Linda


>At 09:42 AM 25/06/2007, Darrell Burkey wrote:
>
>>  > compromises is lack of political will to take the time and spend the
>>  > money to do it right. There are NO technical barriers. If we can get
>>  > gigabits across the trackless ocean between continents, we can get it
>>  > anywhere.
>>
>>Thank you so much for taking the time to post this. I am so very
>>frustrated in trying to get this point across to people.
>
>[sorry if posters got bounces; one of my mailboxes was full; clear now]
>
>Of course it's technically possible. But the reason it is affordable 
>is aggregation of traffic to make it worth doing. Aggregation via 
>fibre/microwave hybrid to groups of people in regional towns may 
>make sense, both for service access and cost. But to run fibre to 
>the home of an outback station is ludicrous. I'd rather tax dollars 
>support a paediatrician in the base hospital or a minimum standard 
>school/teacher/accommodation and a doctor or two in an Indigenous 
>community. The bigger picture view reveals a lot of competition for 
>those dollars. Now if we could get John Howard to stop wasting money 
>on advertising pitches to buy the next election, which is worse than 
>FTTH to a sheep station, we might be talking a better use of funds, 
>but just a little bit better.
>
>Jan
>[who is a big supporter of space exploration, owns a copy of the 
>Shuttle Operation Manual, has visited both Kennedy Space Center and 
>Johnson Space Center, hosted an astronaut program (many retire to 
>Phoenix) which led to meeting both Ron Evans and another member of 
>the Apollo 16 moon mission, and has an uncle who worked for NASA in 
>Ohio at the John Glenn Centre for many years]
>
>
>Jan Whitaker
>JLWhitaker Associates, Melbourne Victoria
>jwhit at janwhitaker.com
>business: http://www.janwhitaker.com
>personal: http://www.janwhitaker.com/personal/
>commentary: http://janwhitaker.com/jansblog/
>
>Writing Lesson #54:
>Learn to love revision. Think of it as polishing the silver for 
>guests. - JW, May, 2007
>
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>there is no plant.' - JW, April 2005
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