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

[Jan Whitaker]

At 08:57 AM 12/04/2011, Tom Worthington wrote:
>If anyone has a suggestion for what the Australian definition should be,
>with authoritative references to back it up (not the Wikipedia), I would
>be happy to put it to the group on Thursday. But if that definition is
>too different from what is used in other countries it is unlikely to be
>accepted.

Since it's a suggestion, it's not backed up with any reference. I 
would say a minimum today is 1.5Mb since that is the top end of plain 
ADSL (I think) for a reasonable distance from the DSLAM. The 
definition of 256 has been replaced by what is on offer from the 
suppliers if nothing else.


>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".

That's an arbitrary definition and could always be changed. Maybe the 
guy at ABS (or whoever is collecting those statistics) who normally 
thinks about those definitions was on long service leave when it was decided.

Jand



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