Hi all,
I've raised the issue of the Pirate Party's lack of a telecommunications
policy.
<https://discuss.pirateparty.org.au/t/telecommunications-policy/770/5>
Some of the assertions I'm getting in response strike me as a little
weird. Particularly as they come from someone who says he has relevant
experience.
... homes that are still too remote for a copper cable are definitely
going to be too remote for a fibre connection, as a copper cable can
be strung up on poles but you have to trench fibre and in the arid
area of Australia there are plants whose roots steal water from other
plants roots by slicing into them and they do the same thing to any
underground cables they come across so they have to have extra
reinforcement.
Isn't the fibre component of HFC normally overhead? I know that's the
case for TransACT.
Any services provided by Fibre, including audio and video is purely IP
based and will only work over the internet connection
I thought NBN FttP made provision for both video and audio, outside the
Internet. Am I misreading
<http://www.nbnco.com.au/content/dam/nbnco2/documents/nbn-industry-briefing-fibre-tv-and-rf-light-path.pdf>?
Links to substantial information on non-Internet audio and video over
fibre would help no end.
Now that the analogue TV has been turned off part of that spectrum is
now being used for Digital Radio and Digital TV but this had no effect
on any types of internet or mobile coverage
Don't both Telstra and Optus use some of that old TV spectrum for mobile
telephony?
Any help, references, etc. would be greatly appreciated. It's hard for
one of limited knowledge to detect all the BS, let alone counter it. ;)
If you want to join in, I think they allow non-members to comment.
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