On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Ken Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Um, since when am I a “FTTP nutjob”?**** > > ** ** > > Your antipathy to the current NBN is well known. > I have an antipathy for piling up money and setting it on fire. [ ... ] > **** > > Since you’re been involved in enough IT projects over the last couple of > decades you should also know that “all sweeping generalisations are wrong” > and that the opposite of “let’s do this right” is “let’s have a hodge-podge > of different things that could cripple you in the future”. Both approaches > have risks – neither is the “one true path” > Sorry no. If you can deliver something of benefit today for good value, then you should do it. If you have existing infrastructure that is servicing millions of people with 100mbps then you shouldn't pull it out and replace it - that's dogma. Just the thought of spending government dollars going into new apartment buildings and putting fibre next to existing cat5e/cat6 copper runs because of this new fibre religion makes me want to bang my head on the desk. David.
