On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 6:47 PM, Ken Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote:
> So, I'm just asking for a 1st world economy that has two (or more) sets of > water, electricity, sewerage, roads, railway lines, fixed line telephony > etc. running in parallel servicing a broad customer base (e.g. more than a > million customers) > Whilst one might struggle finding duplicated water and sewerage pipes delivering the same services for more than one million customers, we DO have two or more sets of competing broadband infrastructure servicing more than a million customers in Australia. All of that is going to get chucked in the bin and replaced with something less flexible and more expensive. > > Let's say government owned the pits, and allowed 10 providers to run > > their own cable at a cost of say $10 per residence per year and then got > > out of the way, > > Ah, so all the tunnels/conduits, and access holes are owned by the > government? I assume that buying up all the land and digging the trenches > is the expensive part (not so much putting the cables into an existing > hole). So, how is this substantively different to the government also > putting in some fibre and letting anyone buy some bandwidth? > You can backhaul out of an exchange over dark at 1-10gbps for a couple of grand a month in metro areas. Today. Ring Mr Vocus/Pipe/whoever and they will happily sell it to you. Put a couple of BIDI optics on a single stand of fibre and you're good to go and service all of the customers in that Exchange area with EoC, fibre, xDSL or whatever else is available there. Compare and contrast to http://www.nbnco.com.au/assets/documents/wba-product-catalogue-price-list-20130211.pdf Section 2.3. What does 10gbps of CVC is going to cost from NBN? $200K a month. Want to service the whole country? You have to pay the man - NO OPTION but to pay the man - at 121 POIs nationally. There is a reason why Internode connected *their entire Tasmanian customer base* at 200mbps (actually, they tried to get away with 100mbps but people complained). The NBN ads should say "Superfast 100mbps broadband ... for 2 hours a month." One can only wonder what will go through your head in 43 billion dollars time, when you order your 100mbps link and then run it for 2 hrs before being shaped to 1mbps for exceeding your quota. David.
