I did run into someone from NBN the other day that told me they don't have enough money in the bank to last more than about a year. Also said it is highly likely to fail because it is a politically driven project. So regardless of how it turns out, nbn will need to be restructured after the election.
As for fiber degradation, from my electronic engineering days, it lasts a hell of a long time. Its the end points that degrade. The capacity of fiber is in the tens of thousands of gigabytes. Copper has a maximum achievable speed of perhaps 50 Mbps. But when you have a degrading network of copper, what do you replace it with? More copper, or fiber? Fiber is magnitudes more superior. Fiber does need to go in. Its a matter of when. And this kind of project cannot be market driven. I don't vote for either of the blood sucking leeches, but on this one I believe the labor nbn is far superior. Its just a pity its so badly managed and that the Liberals will be just as bad or even worse. Sent from my Windows Phone ------------------------------ From: David Connors Sent: 13/04/2013 6:32 PM To: g...@greglow.com; ozDotNet Subject: Re: Office365 ? On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Greg Low (GregLow.com) <g...@greglow.com>wrote: > While I’d love fibre to the house, project management is the one that’s my > biggest concern. Clichés about inability to run chook raffles, even when > given chooks, customers, wheels and comperes come to mind. > Yup. Just wait until it is built. You will definitely get the call: "Hi, I am from NBN Co, the absolute government monopoly with zero competition. We're just ringing to let you know that we're dropping our charges after we've improved our internal inefficiencies in response to zero competition. We also dropping our outrageous CVC charges." Said no one ever. David.
