[LINK] "Shutting down copper is a really dumb thing to do"

[Richard Chirgwin]

Slightly more than six million, Frank. Over the life of the build, the 
number of homes will increase; and there will also be business services. 
NBN Co eventually anticipates 13 million premises (home and business) to 
be connected.

However, that's still trivial by comparison to the USA.

cheers,
Richard C

On 9/11/11 7:56 AM, Frank O'Connor wrote:
> Perhaps in America, with its economies of scale and huge customer numbers (about 170 million or more fixed line connections) big telcos could afford to run two 'systems' in tangent.
>
> Here, it's not as viable. I mean, even the NBN ... even with everyone in Oz connected to it, would  only have about 6 million subscribers. That's not enough to support running a tandem network connection environment.
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> On 09/11/2011, at 12:27 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
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>> http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/405374/primus_ceo_shutting_down_copper_really_dumb_thing_do_/
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