[LINK] NBN fault maintenance

[David]

On Tuesday, 10 December 2019 6:31:19 PM AEDT Dr.bob Jansen wrote:
> As far as I am aware, South Korea has multiple networks, each one created by one of the telcos, all running in parallel with each other like our mobile networks. So apart from the cost, I can’t see why we need only 1 network.

South Korea is a whisker over 100,000 Km^2 in area with a population of around 52 million, and Australia is 76.9 times the area with around one-half the population, most of it in the capital cities.  Any telecoms company would be happy to run a network in metropolitan Sydney, but how many would bother with communications in Backof Beyond?

And a country with independent carriers runs the risk of having poorly integrated infrastructure with poor standards compliance unless there's a very good level of regulation.  However regulation is being deliberately eroded in Australia with the proclaimed intention of removing "business bottlenecks".

DL