[AusNOG] FTTH - Dreaming?

[Bruce Forster]

We need a 4 point plan to ensure success with this idea, i have done a 
rough plan up... feel free to correct me if im wrong.


1, Build FTTH Network
2, Free Internets
3, ???
4, 600 billion profit.


Regards,

Bruce

On Sat, 16 Aug 2008, McDonald Richards wrote:

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> While working on the early hours of a Saturday morning as I know so many of
> us do I stumbled across this gem of an article. I'd love to know who
> actually edits and fact checks this junk before they publish it online.
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> http://business.theage.com.au/business/fibre-to-the-home-a-musthave-only-gov
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> Some of the quotes are absolute gold.
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> "The Federal Government should build and control a FTTH network capable of
> speeds of at least 100 megabits a second. This would require a capital
> expenditure of about $15-20 billion but this cost is easily justified."
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> "The Government should maximise public use of a FTTH network by charging a
> modest annual administration fee of $50-100 but nothing for actual use. This
> would cover the network's administrative and minimal running costs.
> (Maintaining our copper network reportedly costs a lot more - about $600
> million a year.)"
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> "A FTTH network would give Australians free national phone calls and fast
> access to the internet. And its applications would have obvious social and
> commercial benefits."
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> In fact I think I had a good chuckle at almost every paragraph. Don't even
> get me started on the technical points! With the cost analysis of 98% FTTN
> coverage done by Pipe coming it at ~16 billion I'd love to know how the
> author of this article believes an FTTH network can be built by the
> government for "about 15-20 billion". They didn't even reference the total
> population coverage and there's only a 5 billion dollar window in that
> highly scientific cost estimate - which is more than Labor plan to
> contribute in total to FTTN!
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> I hope you all enjoy it as much as I did.
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> Macca
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