[LINK] Four Corners NBN & NBN retail cost and 12 year technology bell curve

[Tom Koltai]

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> More at: 
> <http://www.abc.net.au/news/events/national-broadband-network/
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 From one of the slides on that page:
> 1975
>
> Telecommunications and postal functions are separated with the passing

> of the Telecommunications Act. The result is the Australian 
> telecommunications Commission trading as Telecom Australia.
>
> A fibre-optic cable network is predicted to be Australia's future in a

> new report titled, 'Telecom 2000'.
>
>The 4 Corners report gave a bit of the history that led to 
>fibre-to-the-premises, which we tend to forget (some of us
deliberately).
>
>
As a reseller for Alcatel in the early eighties, I became closely
involved with the Telecom 2000 initiative.
In 1985 throughout Telecom in Darwin and Adelaide, there was an espirit
de corps that disappeared in nineties as the commercialisation and
contractors got into the fray.
The old Telecom guys worked to deliver high class solutions to the
Australian population.
With Telstra now a public company the focus switched to delivering
dividends for shareholders by reducing unprofitable operations and
overheads.

If the NBN team (ex AARNET and Telecom) can deliver the old Telecom 2000
work ethic, then I would say that Australia is in good hands.

As much  as I like the Liberals, in this instance, Malcolm is partly
wrong. The fibre needs to be rolled out. However Steven is also partly
wrong... Possibly the fibre could be just to the kerb and in some
instances back to the node.

Here I refer to TomW's comment:

Quote/
The definitions can lead to strange results. As an example, my apartment
building has a Transact fibre optic node in the basement. But this does
not count as "fibre to the home" for statistical purposes, as the last
20m or so of cable from the node to the apartment is copper. In contrast

NBN "fibre" connection for a house is copper for the last few metres,
but that is on one property so counts as "fibre".
/quote

Copper/70+ GHz for the last 100-250 metres is an acceptable delivery
technical solution.
Any household that wants fibre to the home, should trench to the kerb.

All Australians should get out there with pick and shovel and join in.
What's wrong with this country ?
Where's that old, "We can do this" attitude?

Four Corners have done an excellent job at delivering an unemotional,
non-political and what appeared to be a non-partisan discussion of the
issues.
Rah rah aunty!!
Do they give OBE's to Statutory Government Authorities ?

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