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That's not a bad model: the last mile is usually the most expensive piece of any network to install, after all. The Australian NBN was going to be something al
by manicdee 13y ago
That's not a bad model: the last mile is usually the most expensive piece of any network to install, after all.
The Australian NBN was going to be something along the same lines: Government installs the common backhaul, last mile and "points of interconnect" then the corporations can install their points of presence & if required they can provide their own backhaul too.
Sadly Rupert Murdoch's party has decided that further proliferation of the very model the NBN was trying to avoid is a better way of spending the money.
- XorNot 13y agoIronically that whole thing is essentially all about NetFlix as well: Australia with decent broadband would be a tempting market to enter, and would obliterate Foxtel overnight. Currently Foxtel also signs all sorts of exclusivity agreements to make sure no one can offer streaming services for regular TV in Australia either - hence the mystery of us still receiving American TV shows up to a year after they finish running in the US. There's a reason we're #1 for torrent piracy.