[LINK] fibre distance issues?

[Adrian Chadd]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2007, Glen Turner wrote:

> As for coverage, it comes down to political will and patience.
> Those remote places have roads and power, so its a falsity
> that infrastructure cannot be placed there.  The trick is to
> do so economically -- people in those areas need to recognise
> that these services took decades to arrive. Political will
> is also needed to solve some political problems -- why is it
> that the local council is funded to work on the road, but not
> funded to install fibre whilst doing so?

The same reason I've seen so many mining projects which involve
running large amounts of power capacity around a large mining site
but don't run fibre at the same time..



Adrian