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Originally Posted by supernova1965
Ray if you are going to talk about tech with the speed and reliability of fibre optic you need to name it.
There is no current way that you can get 100 MBPS anywhere in Australia and with fibre it only needs the ends above any flood level and it will keep operating under water that can't be done with copper.
If you can come up with tech that is as durable and provides the speed of Fibre to the predicted 98% of Australians you may even convince me I am wrong but you have failed to do that the only thing that comes close is Cable which you need a different type of router and live in the largest cities in Australia I may be wrong but I believe cable only services Sydney and Melbourne.
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Let me quote you some statements made by engineers in the 90s when the Internet rubber started to hit the road: '14Kbs is the max that you'll ever get from copper wire', later: 'you'll never be able to exceed 36Kbs'. No one could conceive the speeds that one could get through copper wire in that decade, yet we have ADSL2+ speeds (for some) coming through copper wire, something no one would have believed in the 90s. Cable is not necessarily the ultimate solution.
You're now introducing other aspects into the debate, which have nothing to do with the technology itself, but more with redundancy that can be implemented into any technology. Copper wire, for example, works fine under water and has done so for nearly a century. That's what formed the basis of the first submarine comminication cables across the Atlantic and Pacific.
Even the NBN will not reach the majority of the rural population and will be supplemented with alternative technologies. Read the NBN charter and you'll see that it will depend on a number of alternatives because it will be exceedingly expensive to take fibre optic to every doorstep in Australia.
Telstra is also not restricted in providing alternative technology, the only thing that it has agreed to do is not promote such technology over the NBN. That says something in itself.
Cheers
Ray