[AusNOG] Long live the NBN. The NBN is dead?! [personal]

[Jeremy Begg]

Hi,

I've been watching this discussion over the past couple of months both here
and on LinkedIn and I continue to be amazed by the short-sightedness of some
people.  If the country was left to the exceedingly "dry" economics being
espoused by some here, we'd have no country at all.

>> But if the true cost is $50k vs $5k for the NBN your effectivily saying
>> it's not economical to run fibre to your house.  That pretty much kills the
>> "business case" for the NBN right there.  Why should the tax payer subsidise
>> running fibre to your house when most everyone else won't get any real
>> benefit from it.

On that logic there's no sense in paying for paved roads beyond a few
arterials in each city.

Remember, the cost is being amortised over 50 years.  And in 10 years time
we *will* be wanting more than 12Mbit/second bandwidth.  Has anyone heard
about something called "The Cloud" :-)

I was at a Hewlett-Packard seminar today which included presentations on
various virtualisation technologies (no surprises there).  What was
interesting was the number of scenarios where remote access and remote
management would be made much more practical by a solid, fast broadband
network.

>> No-one here has given even one compelling reason for FTTH.
>>
>> IPTV
>> Smart Metering
>> coverged phone line and data (VoIP)
>> Teleconferrencing
>> etc
>>
>> none of these offer any real value to the average tax payer.

In terms of the taxes I pay I'm very average and I see value in all of those
things.

Regards,

	Jeremy Begg