[LINK] An Overhead NBN

[Tom Worthington]

On 07/11/13 11:07, stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:

> ... power companies installed the fibre on their poles ...

Yes, the power company in Canberra set up a company called TransAct, 
which ran fibre and copper cable on their poles: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TransACT

For apartment buildings, the fiber is laid to the basement and then 
copper cable to the apartments: http://www.tomw.net.au/links/20020501.html

I can't see there would be much additional expense running fiber optic 
cable, rather than copper.

Transact worked fine for Internet, digital TV and telephony, but after a 
few years I went wireless and canceled my service.

TransACt was sold to iiNet in 2011: 
https://www.transact.com.au/en-ACT/about-us


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