[LINK] Anticipated service life of fibre (was: Does NBN need a third satellite?)

[Andy Farkas]

On 05/04/2016 08:59, David Boxall wrote:
> How far it can go in the century-or-so anticipated service life, it's 
> our duty to find out.

David, you've mentioned this "anticipated service life" a few times now.

None of us can see into the future, but what would replace something
that can go at the (constant) speed of light? The life of a fibre cable
is vastly longer than a century. They will probably only have to replace
broken/crushed cables.

-andyf