tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777177917540226839.post2486113895024912457..comments2014-04-12T14:49:58.988+10:00Comments on SteveJ on Broadband: pre-election NBN posts: NBN: many outstanding questionssteve jenkinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16064724730975745470noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777177917540226839.post-12152361501006192382013-07-26T14:51:52.162+10:002013-07-26T14:51:52.162+10:00Good work Steve, for the record here are the 3 que...Good work Steve, for the record here are the 3 questions I asked that promoted the "done to death" response:<br><br>*Cost to buy Telstra’s copper network – MT claims it’ll be free when it was clearly not included in the current contract and for Telstra to give it away will result in legal action by shareholders and possible criminal charges for breaching the corporations act for failing this in legal duty: “Duty to act in good faith and not to act contrary to the interest of the company”. lets just say it cost 5 Billion extra for the last mile copper, that’s now $34 Billion the LNP needs to find to fund their network.<br><br>*time taken to get the 1st node installed – likely scenario is an FTTN rollout will have barely started by 2016. Changing all the FTTP related contracts, negotiating a new deal with Telstra and then ACCC approvals will take time (years, not months and the LNP has nothing to threaten Telstra with, Conroy had the 4G spectrum as leverage). Not to mention at least 6 months worth of reviews they have promised.<br><br>*What is the real life useful lifetime of an FTTN network? – lets compare realistic average speeds provided over up to 600m max line lengths (to be generous) – lets take 50Mbps as the average speed (VDSL/2 @ 300m) and work out just how long it will be before the entire network will be outgrown by Australian residential and business users? So the question is can an FTTN network can realistically pay for itself and earn an ROI?Derek Osbornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02597562335510399494noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1777177917540226839.post-51105481784167466132013-07-26T13:02:48.977+10:002013-07-26T13:02:48.977+10:00I think part of the problem is that Renai LeMay de...I think part of the problem is that Renai LeMay desperately appears to want to believe in the LNP proposal being somehow equivalent to the current NBN. He constantly claims he deals in 'facts and evidence' but when presented with such precious little 'facts and evidence' as exists about the FTTN proposal, he becomes increasingly irritated and spits the dummy. It has become more and more apparent that factual evidence of the inability of the proposal to provide for the future is something of a furphy for him. It it doesn't fit within his - apparently predefined - frame of reference, he discards it. It really is a great shame, as he clearly is essentially a good, honest journalist, and I think I speak for many, many people when I say that.Mikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17673653116765663369noreply@blogger.com