[AusNOG] Flogging a dead horse

[Daniel Hooper]

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From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Matthew Moyle-Croft [mmc at internode.com.au]
Sent: 16 August 2010 14:20
To: Tim McCullagh
Cc: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net; Paul Brooks
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Flogging a dead horse

Tim,
The demand for faster services exists.   The constant denial that it doesn't and the demand isn't going to grow is tiring as you know it's not true.

/me hopes you're going to be vocal about the government spending same kinds of dollars on a few ships, submarines and fighter planes over the next decade.   Certainly if we can't afford NBN then we can't afford to spend the same money on defence as well.

Still I see no alternate plan other than "hopefully technology will save us from ourselves".

MMC



Good call on the alternative plan, You've stated this a few times now over the last week and after much beer drinking and staring into my imaginary crystal ball I've came up with this.

What stinks about the current Government/NBNco plans is the un-realistic time frames they're setting and promises they are making. I say lets take a more conservative approach, use some of that 43billion to bring the country up to DSL2 standards first and then move forward from there in the way of slowly pulling back the copper and replacing it with fibre as the time comes. Someone quoted in a earlier thread that the NBNco is going to need to cut over 5000 premises a day to hit its target date of 8 years (I could be wrong on these numbers) .. what ever the figures are, they were obviously put together by some junkie with his bag of cocaine in hand. 

I'm also guessing that if Telstra is split and the communications act ratified it to support providers other then Telstra deploying optics through brownfiled & greenfield estates, the smaller fibre providers will move into the cash cow area's and soak it up quickly, so really you'll see something like 85% of the population on FTTH before you know it and it'll be funded on the private enterprise dollar, leaving the government to do what it should do which is fund the area's where the private enterprises wont go.