On 13 November 2013 11:14, Ken Schaefer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Even over 20+ years? I don’t think, 20+ years ago we had any real idea > how compute, storage, network and other infrastructure technologies were > specifically going to fall in cost per unit, but they have been rather > relentlessly. > I think using the progress made in IT in general over the past two decades as a yard stick for a government monopoly removing a tax on Ethernet switching is pretty wishful thinking. Especially when their business plan has no intention or timeline for sunsetting the charges. The worst outcome from their review, I think, could be some sort of token reduction in CVC (say $20 down to $10) so the government can pretend it has been dealt with and move on. Even then moving data across the CBD would be 1000% more expensive than moving it to Japan. There is a bunch of other structural stuff in NBN which is bizarre (121 POIs, for example) ... dunno if any of that will get dealt with. I like Hackett's suggestion of going back to 7 POIs with full redundancy rather than 121 POIs with no redundancy. It is going to be a party when one of those 121 POIs burn down. As Hackett (I think it was him - might have been Malone) - the NBN's pricing model is constructed on the principle of scarcity, which the opposite is true. David.
