<html><head><base href="x-msg://1288/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 12/08/2010, at 2:30 PM, Tim McCullagh wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div bgcolor="#ffffff"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small; ">To believe otherwise is foolish given that an adsl port provisioned costs $150 per port and a ftth port will cost $3500 to 7500. </span></div></div></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Apples and oranges when one include the complete cost of a local loop and one doesn't, especially when part of the point is to fix the problem where people can only get very slow ADSL2 and/or none or live in areas with significantly degraded copper or RIMs ("etc") which are full. </div><div><br></div><div>Again, you haven't answered my question regarding ensuring the regulatory certainty that would allow you to start building in two weeks.</div><div><br></div><div>MMC</div></div></body></html>