[LINK] Pirate Party Telecommunications Policy

[Stephen Rothwell]

Hi David,

On Fri, 13 May 2016 15:16:22 +1000 David Boxall <linkdb at boxall.name> wrote:
>
> > ... homes that are still too remote for a copper cable are definitely 
> > going to be too remote for a fibre connection, as a copper cable can 
> > be strung up on poles but you have to trench fibre and in the arid 
> > area of Australia there are plants whose roots steal water from other 
> > plants roots by slicing into them and they do the same thing to any 
> > underground cables they come across so they have to have extra 
> > reinforcement.  
> Isn't the fibre component of HFC normally overhead? I know that's the 
> case for TransACT.

TransACT is FTTN ... I *think* (but do not know) that the fibre is
(mostly) underground and the copper is either underground or overhead
(in 100 pair bundles?).

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell