[LINK] New opposition spokesperson for broadband

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Richard Chirgwin wrote:
> Glen Turner wrote:
>> Jan Whitaker wrote:
>>
>>   
>>> ``Nick Minchin will take on the fraud that is Labor's broadband 
>>> revolution,'' Mr Turnbull said.
>>>
>>> ``He will be there to take on (minister Stephen) Conroy and with a 
>>> very powerful combination of experience in communications, finance 
>>> and in regulation.
>>>
>>> ``Nick Minchin is perfectly equipped to take on Stephen Conroy and 
>>> demonstrate the hollowness of this area of the government's initiative.''
>>>     
>> If you were to describe the proposed NBN as "hollow" it would be
>> because it is installing a $5B network which will be inadequate
>> within a decade and have huge maintenance costs (90,000 street
>> cabinets) rather than dealing with the $20B nettle of fiber to
>> the home now and reaping the longer network lifetime and lower
>> operating costs in the future.
>>
>> What is also disappointing is Mr Turnbull's treatment of
>> telecommunications as a purely political exercise.  We suffered
>> strongly from this during Minister Alston's time in office. I
>> do hope that attitude hasn't returned.  We'll see soon enough I
>> suppose.
>>   
> As devil's advocate ... how accurate is any estimate, whether $5 bn for
> FTTN or $20 bn for FTTH?
> 
> This report (warning: PDF) is interesting:
> <http://www.broadbanduk.org/component/option,com_docman/task,doc_view/gid,1036/Itemid,63/>
> 
> The UK research, that it could cost as much as 40 billion *pounds* to
> FTTH Britain, was sobering: the UK is smaller and denser, and that's
> supposed to be good for fibre economics ... so is the research
> off-the-wall, or is fibre far more expensive than we expect?
> 

In the fibre to the home model, who pays for the last bit on private property
and where will the conversion from light  occur?

Marghanita
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Marghanita da Cruz
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