[LINK] Telstra WiFi Network

[Tom Worthington]

On 22/05/14 10:03, Paul Brooks wrote:
> ... If NBN built such a WiFi facility in, it would be providing a retail service ...

The NBN could provide WiFi connectivity via retailers, just as it does 
the wired service. It would require NBN to install and maintain more 
hardware, but there would be considerable benefit for the customers and 
for NBN Co. The customer could still choose to install the own router as 
well, if they wished.

Working out how to support WiFi would not be easy, or cheap. But no one 
said building a National Broadband Network was easy or cheap. The debate 
has been about Fibre-To-The-Premises versus "Node", but it is not nodes 
or premises which need the network, it is "People". A system which 
delivers the network to a box attached to the outside of a house is 
incomplete.

Imagine you are a teco customer service representative talking to a 
customer:

CSR: "Yes, sir, we have delivered broadband to your front door!"

Customer: "Thanks, but how do I get it in the study and out back on the 
patio?"

CSO: "Sorry sir, that is not our problem, we got it to the front door."

Customer: "Well that is no use, take it away and I will use wireless 
instead."

CSO: "Excellent choice sir, for only twice the price we can deliver one 
tenth the data. Now we just have to install this tower in your backyard. 
...".  ;-)


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