[LINK] NBN Wireless?

[Richard Chirgwin]

Karl -

Re backhaul. The NBN fixed wireless will connect to whatever backhaul 
network is used in a particular area. NBN Co will acquire its backhaul 
from existing long-haul providers - Telstra, Optus, Nextgen, etc.

RC

On 6/02/13 8:06 PM, Karl Auer wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-02-06 at 03:53 +0000, stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:
>> Briefly, as one of many Aussies whose country town does not crack the NBN
>> required minimum number for cable we will apparently receive NBN wireless.
> Does that mean that Telstra will rip out copper in areas getting NBN
> wireless?!? Say it isn't so!
>
>> Whatever, one does wonder what will happen. Especially as today the good
>> Senator claims that NBN services will be faster than metro-centre ADSL2+
> Only if they have terrestrial backhaul. Otherwise we will lose a slow
> low-latency system in favour of a fast, high-latency system. This is a
> step backwards for anyone who required any kind of interactive
> performance.
>
> Regards, K.
>