[AusNOG] FTTH - Dreaming?

[Adrian Chadd]

You should replace that with:

1. Get government funding.
2. ??
3. Profit.




Adrian

On Sat, Aug 16, 2008, Bruce Forster wrote:
> 
> 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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> > AusNOGers,
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> > http://business.theage.com.au/business/fibre-to-the-home-a-musthave-only-gov
> > ernment-can-provide-20080814-3vr0.html
> >
> >
> >
> > Some of the quotes are absolute gold.
> >
> >
> >
> > "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."
> >
> >
> >
> > "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.)"
> >
> >
> >
> > "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."
> >
> >
> >
> > 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!
> >
> >
> >
> > I hope you all enjoy it as much as I did.
> >
> >
> >
> > Macca
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