I was loathe to debate the facts with you Longy, because you seem to be utterly bereft of them.
Quote:it is also a quater of the cost of fibre to the home. fibre to the home is superior in every measurment other than cost effectiveness. very very very few homes will need it or utilise if a fractions of its bandwidth. most hardly stretch ADSL2+ now either.
so the simple and far cheaper solution is fibre to the node followed up by optional (and separately costed) fiber to the home or business as required. it is scalable, vastly cheaper and with virtually no reduction in actual usefulness.
OK, FTTN a quarter the cost??
God knows where you pulled that figure from, the Liberal Party Big Book Of Bull, I expect.
The simple fact is the old copper wires do not cut it, and even the high speed copper that I trialled entailed Telstra running new copper to the node, then Cat 6 to my home, and to get high speed, and decent bandwidth out of copper, that is what they would have done, so please do no believe the BS that just putting fibre to the node would make the system fast and reliable, it would be better, but still a half done job.
Next comes your assertion that copper does the job now, and ADSL2+ is more than adequate.
Sorry, wrong again, I am on 2+ now, and it is slower than my cable service of five years ago.
What you fail to understand, or accept, is that all media will soon be provided digitally, and the fibre network is the only way to effectively deliver that.
The new TV's will have processors and normal TV shows as well as movies, education, and anything else you now get on the net will be available on your telly.
That will need a lot of bandwidth, as high def movies are multiple gigabytes, not a few hundred meg.
This is infrastructure developed for a changing and developing society, you know, the sort of thing that Liberals never do, they always let Labor do the heavy lifting, whilst acting as spoilers all the time, but when it is part of our everyday life they will try and find some way of claiming they helped instead of hindered.
The whole scheme will end up cheaper now that the mad mexican has gone, and Telstra are on board with the project, and the idea of having all the techs and equipment in the area and not wire it up is crazy, as is suggesting they come back and wire up businesses and houses on an individual basis, some time in the future.
I know Libs find it hard to get behind any Nation Building ideas, they are far too busy spending our money on high class welfare, the shysters.
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