<div dir="ltr">Benjamin why don't you lay down some shapes of where NBNCo was planning to do FTTH by its original plan, then some shapes of where NZ's UFB has built. That would be a fair comparison.<div><br></div><div>Just talking about area and population is meaningless. NBNCo was always planning on using satellite over most of Australia's land mass.</div><div><br></div><div>-JB</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 12 May 2017 at 15:52, Benjamin Ricardo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ben.ricardo@acs.net.au" target="_blank">ben.ricardo@acs.net.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">





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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">We’re about 29 times bigger with only 5 times more people… that could be part of the problem…<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> AusNOG [mailto:<a href="mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net" target="_blank">ausnog-bounces@lists.<wbr>ausnog.net</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Tony Wicks<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, 12 May 2017 1:46 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'Alex Samad' <<a href="mailto:alex@samad.com.au" target="_blank">alex@samad.com.au</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> 'Ausnog' <<a href="mailto:ausnog@lists.ausnog.net" target="_blank">ausnog@lists.ausnog.net</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusNOG] NYTimes article on the NBN<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-NZ">It is somewhat amusing to watch from a Kiwi point of view when you see how smoothly our “UFB” FTTH rollout is going and New Zealand takes an unassailable lead! Nice to be winning for
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> AusNOG [<a href="mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net" target="_blank">mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.<wbr>ausnog.net</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Alex Samad<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, 12 May 2017 2:44 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Ausnog <<a href="mailto:ausnog@lists.ausnog.net" target="_blank">ausnog@lists.ausnog.net</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [AusNOG] NYTimes article on the NBN<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-NZ"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/world/australia/australia-slow-internet-broadband.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=2" target="_blank">https://www.nytimes.com/2017/<wbr>05/11/world/australia/<wbr>australia-slow-internet-<wbr>broadband.html?smid=fb-<wbr>nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=2</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-NZ">I thought NYTimes was a Murdoch rag ...<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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