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

[Tom Worthington]

Richard Chirgwin wrote:
> On 12/04/11 8:57 AM, Tom Worthington wrote:
>> ... 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".
>> 
> Tom,
> 
> What do you mean in re the NBN? It is fibre to the "premises", so it
>  counts as such. ...

No. If the NBN fibre is terminated in an apartment building before it
reaches the individual apartments, this does not count as fibre to the
home, for statistical purposes.

> What the end user does after the fibre terminates  doesn't change what's delivered to the home. ...

Yes, that was my point. From the householder's point of view it doesn't 
matter if the fibre ends in the basement, or in their own hallway, what 
they get is the same service. But statistically it matters. This may 
cause the NBN and the householders extra expense, installing fibre where 
it is not really needed, just so the statistics look good.


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