[AusNOG] Nokia partnership will build "Europe's first" 10Gbps residential network | Delimiter

[Mark Smith]

On 10 Jun 2016 9:07 AM, "David Hughes" <david at hughes.com.au> wrote:
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> On 09/06/2016, at 8:01 PM, Dylan Chidgey <dylan.chidgey at cirruscomms.com.au>
wrote:
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>> They have a slight advantage I think…
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> Not so fast there ....
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> Estonia has 1.3 million people spread over 45,000 km2 of space
> Just our 3 eastern state capitals have 10.4 million people in 28,309 km2
of space.
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> Hell, even the Gold Coast has more than 1,000 people per km2 of area.
Density isn't the issue.  Nobody ever talked about building a PON in
unpopulated areas.
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> As for funding it :
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> Estonia GDP per capita  :  USD$18,783
> Australia GDP per capita  :  USD$67,458
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> However you want to cut it, they just made a better decision.  Perhaps
they didn't politicise one of their nation's key infrastructure projects
like we did.
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It couldn't be politicised because Starman is a private company.

> Thanks
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> David
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