[AusNOG] Aust Govt will build National Broadband Network, no company will be awarded the tender.

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Hi All
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Paul Brooks 
  To: Bevan Slattery ; ausnog at ausnog.net 
  Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 5:11 AM
  Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Aust Govt will build National Broadband Network, no company will be awarded the tender.


  Bevan Slattery wrote: 

Come on - let's do this right for a change, because if anything the past
5 years and three initiatives have proven, Government DOESN'T know best.
  He is absolutely 43,000,000,000+% correct.


  Although sometimes government has to step in,

  Absolutely correct


  Nearly three years on and only 170,000 homes subscribed to FTTH at the end of 2008, of which 130,000 were cable customers, according to figures published by Arcep on Tuesday. That is from an addressable market of 550,000 homes passed within 20,500 apartment buildings, the French regulator said.

  Which is why a government NBN will not be able to deliver a commercial return, which leads us to the question is $43,000,000,000 a wise investment to cover 90% of the population of which 68% of the popuation already has access to 12 MB or more. Does enough of the market require semi trailers to go and do the grocery shopping and are they prepared to pay for it, to justify buying everyone a semi trailer to go shopping.

  regards

  Tim
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