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lists wrote:
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<div><font color="#0000ff" face="Arial" size="2">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.</font></div>
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I'm not sure your analogy holds - the $43b is going so much further -
not just building the vehicle, but also building a set of roads so that
everyone can get to their grocery-stores-of-choice without being held
to ransom by the current owner of the only road available at present.<br>
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This $43b is doing what no other commercial carrier has found the
wherewithal to do, after 15 years of pro-competition policy - fund a
duplicated customer access network over a very wide scale. And since
most of the cost is in the civil engineering, trench digging or
cable-pulling over overhead poles, there is very little difference in
cost if it is done with new fibre cable compared to new copper cable.<br>
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so to torture your analogy futher - if it costs much the same to build
a road suitable for a semi-trailer as it does for a moped, why not
build the road suitable for semi-trailers?<br>
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(Paul - amazed that a message held in grey-listing limbo for 3 weeks
can still generate comment).<br>
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