[LINK] An Overhead NBN

[Jim Birch]

Surely, the long term plan should be for a good quality set of ducts in all
city/urban areas that are capable of supporting all services, including
power.  If this was a stated/mandated plan then we wouldn't need the
economic craziness of the different services taking turns to dig up the
roads on alternate years.  You'd just need a bit of planning and
cooperation (FFS).  Ducts capable of supporting power would be more
expensive but for the person who bears the final cost - ie, the people in
the houses, not the company, government or authority - this would be
countered by not having to pay for every service to do it's own dig.

Overhead wires could be the interim solution, or where distances prohibit a
buried solution.

Streets without overhead wires have positive values including amenity that
should go into the equation.  Provided people still go outdoors at all once
they've go their gigabit internet. :)

-Jim


On 8 November 2013 08:58, Tom Worthington <tom.worthington at tomw.net.au>wrote:

> 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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