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[David Boxall]

On 13/04/2011 9:54 AM, I wrote:
> On 13/04/2011 9:24 AM, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
>> ...
>> For one, they are talking about fibre, where there is not currently
>> copper ...
> Where is that?
>
In the absence of a response, I'll put on record that there probably is 
no proposal to replace overhead copper with underground fibre.

To the best of my knowledge, there has been no overhead copper in the 
Australian domestic telecommunications network since about 1960 
(disregarding the cable component of HFC). If there is any, it would be 
in places where undergrounding the cable proved impractical. Would fibre 
prove any more practical to underground in such situations?

For new installations, anything but underground fibre would be a waste 
of resources.

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