[LINK] Turnbull's NBN

[Jan Whitaker]

At 07:08 PM 10/04/2013, Rachel Polanskis wrote:
>The second when I was accused of being a socialist (so what) for 
>supporting the Govt's
>"white elephant".  My response was if so, that the turnbull nodes 
>were a dead whale.
>On every street corner....

Sort of picked up in the Age today:
http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/building-todays-tech-tomorrow-20130412-2hqt0.html

Cost of ownership raises its head again, oh, and life cycle.

"
CSIRO's Heydon says fibre-to-the-node requires much more electronics 
in more places than fibre-to-the-home, and therefore ''the cost of 
maintaining and operating those cabinets out in the street is very high''.

While he does not want to comment on the politics, he says upgrading 
from node to home down the track may be prohibitively expensive, as 
''in many cases those nodes [cabinets] will become irrelevant when 
the copper's not there any more''. The final cost of both plans 
remains up in the air, but you don't have to be a ''tech head'' to 
see that the high maintenance and upgrade costs in the Coalition plan 
would bridge some of the expense gap between the two policies.
"

So the sunk cost of the 'high-electronics-level' cabinets will be an 
excuse not to invest in the next step once it's needed. Dead whales indeed!

The more this Turkey-Turnbull policy is analysed, the worse it looks.

Jan


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