[LINK] Broadband plan tipped to bring higher prices

[Richard Chirgwin]

Frank O'Connor wrote:
> That's what the ABC gets for quoting stockbroking analysts.
> 
> Honestly ... the imagination of plants, an inability to think beyond 
> this financial year and all the technical acumen of a block of soap 
> suds.
> 
> These are not people I would have been approaching for a comment.
>

It's a capacity problem, once you've phoned everybody with a good opinion, and
they're on the phone to some other media, then you've gotta head down the food
chain ..

> My 2 cents worth ...
> 
> 1. The CURRENT average speed is probably a lot higher than 1Mbs.

YMMV depending on plans...

> 
> 2. My speed oscillates between 9 and 15Mbs.
> 
> 3. 100Mbs will probably be a conservative requirement when the NBN 
> has finally been built - 5 to 7 years down the track.
> 
> That said the fact that it contains elements of FTH rather than FTN 
> ... which augers well for future expandability, and seems a tad more 
> forward thinking that the NBN that was originally tendered.

Yes to that ...

RC

> 
> 					Regards,
> 
> At 3:16 PM +1000 7/4/09, David Boxall wrote:
>> <http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/04/07/2537297.htm>
>>>  Updated April 7, 2009 14:22:00
>>>
>>>  Market analysts say broadband prices are likely to rise, after the 
>>> Government unveiled an amibitious new $43 billion plan to build a 
>>> national fibre-to-the-home broadband network.
>> ...
>>>  But analysts are astonished at the upfront cost and say they have 
>>> concerns about the network's commercial viability.
>>>
>>>  "I've got no idea what's driving the Government to do this," Ivor 
>>> Ries, an analyst with EL and C Baillieu Stockbroking, says.
>>>
>>>  "They're saying a network that will deliver 100 megabits per 
>>> second, that would exceed current household consumption by a factor 
>>> of 100 times
>> ...
>>
>> --
>> David Boxall                    |  My figures are just as good
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