Andrew McGlashan via luv-main wrote:
My biggest rant is as follows: "Originally the plan was for a government INVESTMENT of $26.9 billion; with monies coming back as a return on investment upon eventual sale of the network. Now we have the real white elephant version at a cost of $60+ billion and there won't be many suiters willing to buy it unless they can pick it up for a song. Hence, we'll lose a very significant amount (if not every cent), that is spent on this far inferior version that is Turncoat's mess."
It seems to me part of the problem has been that optical-fibre has always been compared with; alternatives like ADSL over copper, cell-phone wireless on the basis of current data transfer rates, which are good, but not 'disruptive' ie around 100Mb/s. The message which NBN failed to convey, was that fibre has vastly more potential. They should have been marketing that potential, so that politicians like Malcom Turnbull, who regardless of his financial prowess is a technology, dumb-cluck; got the message. For example it took me little time to find : "Earlier this year, global telecoms company Alcatel-Lucent claims to have set a new fibre optic world record with an impressive 31 Tbit/s data transfer over a single fibre cable, overtaking the previous record of 26 Tbit/s set by The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in May 2011, by a team of German, UK and Swiss scientists." at :https://www.warwicknet.com/blog/how-fast-can-fibre-optic-go Now this seems to be a more modern fibre-optic cable from that the NBN is laying, but we should have heard about potential data-tranfere rates (DTR) for the cable the NBN is laying, if they had any imagination. Just off the top of my head I would expect cell-phone DTR to be tied to the frequency of the carrier wave but the frequency of that wave sets the cell size. So to double the cell-phone DTR you need a technology that doubles the frequency and in consequence halves the cell size and quadruples the number of towers. Where as for NBN fibre (up to some limit), the DTR can be increased by orders of magnitude; without costs other than the sending and recieving technology. regards Rohan McLeod