[AusNOG] Government sets parameters for NBN

[Ross Wheeler]

On Wed, 9 Apr 2014, Greg Anderson wrote:

> In my opinion, the FTTH was expensive but invaluable, however this
> technology mix (lets call it PN for public network) is not going to solve a
> majority of the problems we have in place today - only the dire ones (like
> pair gain problems preventing any kind of fixed line networking at all).

Lets not lose sight of the great number of people who were never going to get 
glass ANYWAY under the original scheme. There have been flaws at every stage of 
this thing, it's just how many people were affected, and how noisy those people 
were (or politically influential).

When the highest population-density areas (read, those who already had ADSL2, 
wireless and multiple other technologies from a variety of vendors - ie the 
metro areas particularly) were going to get their feeble 5 megabits services 
upgraded to hundred megabits+ over glass, all those people who were stuck with 
dial-up modems (or aspired to have a line good enough to use a dial-up modem), 
or who limped along with 256Kbps adsl1 (because it was the best they could 
get), or were forced back to high-latency, expensive, unreliable satellite 
services that are entirely unsuitable for voice or real interactive 
applications) - were unlikely to actually see any benefit ANYWAY.

Expensive solutions or not, don't fool yourself that EITHER party was going to 
actually deliver FTEP. (Fiber-To-EVERY-Premesis)