[LINK] ERRATA RE: NBN widening digital divide in bush

[Tom Koltai]

Sorry Folks.. Too quick with the calcs...
The fibre laying is actually:   27,360,000

Which totals 39,874,680 capex for the project or $46,911 per head of
estimated population.

All I can say is oops.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: link-bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au 
> [mailto:link-bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of Tom Koltai
> Sent: Saturday, 16 July 2011 2:26 PM
> To: 'Richard Chirgwin'; link at mailman.anu.edu.au
> Subject: Re: [LINK] NBN widening digital divide in bush
> 
> 
> Actually Richard, and others.
> 
> As being an individual that has criss crossed the Northern 
> Territoriy, the top half of WA and most of the Gulf country, 
> (occassionally installing VSAT terminals for the Telecom 2000 
> project (in the mid
> eighties) and Iterra Trailers... in remote communities and 
> for the Ambulance and flying Doctor Services), I can honestly 
> say that I can visualise fibre in those little outback communities. 
> 
> And the numbers not only warrant it, they demand it.
> 
> Let us assume the average Australian (employed) earns 1.5 
> million in their lifetime. Let us further assume that 
> taxation is at 27%. 
> A 200 member community with 50 persons paying tax for forty 
> years equals $20,250,000 in consolidated revenue.
> 
> Fibre is $80/lm to lay.
> 
> Let us assume a Fibre requirement in Boroolola, N.T. 
> [-16.037895,136.306915] which is about as remote as you can 
> get in Australia.
> 
> Cost of Fibre Trenched anext the carpentaria highway = 
> $76,320 (approx) 
> Add 100K for really difficult conditions...          = $100,000
> Cost of Transmission Equipment = $12,400,000 (approx) 
> Cost of CPE per home = $300 p/h (approx)
> 
> Total Cost of Fibre to all homes in Borooloola ?   $12591000
> 
> Value to community of a high speed broadband enabled 
> education, health,
> entertainment and social benefits ?   
> 
> So actually, the only reason the fibre isnt going to places 
> like Boroolola is that our politicians cant see the benefits 
> of opening up the vast open under developed regions, even 
> though the project would obviously fund itself....
> 
> After all, the only people living there... Well, they 
> probably don't vote, so they probably don't really matter...
> 
> Ya know, I though about it for a few seconds. You guys are 
> all correct. 
> With no broadband, they won't get educated, so they will 
> never get the jobs to pay the taxes. Might as well make it 
> someone else's problem... Maybe the next government to come 
> along... Let's just give them more of what they have had for 
> the last thirty years. Broadband VSAT!!!
> 
> Gee, that will energise those country folks.....
> 
> What a pile of self serving, utter claptrap!
> 
> The country is where we need the Fibre. Not the City. In the 
> City we need Wireless. Expanded ad-hoc ISM, 2.4 GHz style 
> handheld wireless
> 
> 
> Tom.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: link-bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au
> > [mailto:link-bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of 
> Richard Chirgwin
> > Sent: Saturday, 16 July 2011 6:34 AM
> > To: link at mailman.anu.edu.au
> > Subject: Re: [LINK] NBN widening digital divide in bush
> > 
> > 
> > On 14/07/11 3:20 PM, David Boxall wrote:
> > > On 13/07/2011 1:15 PM, Birch, Jim wrote:
> > >> ...  It doesn't make economic sense to take a fibre to
> > every anthill
> > >> in central Australia.  There's a cost/benefit trade off. ...
> > > Are economic considerations the most important? What was the cost
> > > benefit trade off in laying copper to so many remote 
> locations? Was 
> > > cost benefit analysis even done?
> > >
> > > If the anthill has copper, it must eventually get fibre. The fibre
> > > network should then continue growing to ever more remote places.
> > >
> > David,
> > 
> > There still remain many small places without copper. They are
> > connected 
> > via Telstra Digital Radio Concentrators for telephones - 
> and the only 
> > Internet access option is satellite.
> > 
> > These communities are a couple of hundred individuals living
> > hundreds of 
> > km from the nearest Telstra exchange. However much we might 
> > like it, I 
> > can't see fibre reaching locations like that.
> > 
> > RC
> > 
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