[LINK] Remember the power to the nodes issue?

[Frank O'Connor]

Loved this at the Guardian, in reply to an article in which Rupert Murdoch again trashed the NBN:

"Out here in Ust-Kamenogorsk in far east Kazakhstan, the government is putting in FTTP all across our city, old and new buildings alike, expanding to other cities and regions in Kazakhstan as they go.
Whilst our pipe to the outside world may be small, the upload and download speeds (100/100) I have here are far faster than what I had in Darling Point in Sydney.

I guess because a lot of our buildings here are pre-fab apartment blocks, some dating from the Soviet-era, makes it easier to install. The installers just come in, drill a hole between each landing floor and install a box and fibre goes to the apartment on each side.

But I guess because the various tentacles of Murdoch wouldn't get a cut, that sort of simplicity won't fly in Australia ..."

So, Kazakhstan gets FttP at 100Mbs or better ... but Australia can't get a 25Mbs guaranteed network out of 'Mr Broadband'.

Says it all really.           :)
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On 12 Jul 2014, at 9:23 pm, JanW <jwhit at internode.on.net> wrote:

> At 09:05 PM 12/07/2014, Frank O'Connor you wrote:
> 
>> There's the mundane copper/fibre reliability thingie. Exactly how 
>> 'fit for purpose' is the majority of Telstra's copper, how much has 
>> oxidised and been damaged in bits of the 'final yards' that we don't 
>> know about?
> 
> And the *current* cable failure rate that is taking Telstra 3 WEEKS 
> to fix at a friend's house, as well as another friend, and at least 3 
> to 4 others in a sample of about 30 people yesterday. Doesn't bode well.
> 
>> Yeah .... there's a heap of questions that I still have about the 
>> FttN architecture. Obviously the builders and operators are in the same boat.
> 
> But, hey, the MD of NBN Co. is raking it in, taking his 30% bonus, 
> unlike Quigley, and is the 2nd highest paid PS in the country at the moment.
> 
> There's money to be made in this thingie, you know, if you know the 
> right people named Malcolm and Co.
> 
> Jan
> 
> 
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