[LINK] Feasibility of fibre [WAS] Great bandwidth, poor latency

[David Boxall]

On 27/04/2016 12:04 PM, Karl Auer wrote:
> On Wed, 2016-04-27 at 11:30 +1000, David Boxall wrote:
>> On 27/04/2016 8:57 AM, Tom Worthington wrote:
>>> ... (it is not feasible to run fiber to every home in Australia).
>>
>> Often asserted, never substantiated.
>
> Costly, yes. ...
I guess it depends on perspective. Conservatives characteristically have 
great difficulty perceiving value. Cost therefore looms large. Any cost.

I've heard it said that, for less than a dollar per week on average over 
its anticipated service life, we could implement fibre to every premises 
on the mainland, Tasmania and probably quite a few of the other islands. 
If we went as high as $2/premises per week, who knows what we could 
achieve? Might even do New Guinea and part of Indonesia. ;)

Is $1 per week costly?

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