<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 11/08/2010, at 3:08 PM, Paul Brooks wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"><br></div><div bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000">I don't accept that a household connection *cost* needs to be $3000 -
$5000, especially if - like the current network - the common costs are
amortised over a period of many decades, which is something that a
government entity can do, but a purely commercial organisation perhaps
cannot. </div></blockquote><br></div><div>That kinda ignores the way new copper connections take place now.</div><div><br></div><div>The expensive bits (pit and pipe, cable back to an pillar for aggregation)</div><div>is supplied by the housing estate developer. Its price is built into the cost</div><div>of each house (so it might contribute a couple of grand to the asking price</div><div>of the block of land). When it's built it's gifted to Telstra, and they plonk a </div><div>RIM next to the pillar and install fibre back to the nearest exchange.</div><div><br></div><div>It's dead wrong to say that the cost of a house's copper connection is</div><div>"amortised over a period of many decades." That might have been the</div><div> case 80 years ago, but those days are long gone.</div><div><br></div><div>New bits of the CAN are now built by private entities, paid for with short</div><div>short term debt that's recovered as blocks of land are sold. And Telstra</div><div>pays for barely any of it.</div><div><br></div><div> - mark</div><div><br></div><br><div>
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