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Re: % of Population vs % of Geography I remember when I first heard about NBN 2-3 years ago, I did some paper napkin math on what it would take to do it here. And those numbers feel pretty accurate.
VZ FiOS showed a lot about large scale fiber deployments in the US. Particularly that it isn't as expensive as pundits would have you believe, and that costs come down.
If take into account the economies of scale that a country wide deployment would have, costs come down even further.
Also when you have a single piece of infrastructure, with everyone investing into, and competing on top of it, costs come down dramatically. There's good reason why there's only one electric, gas, water, sewer line into your home or business. It follows that there should be one, publicly owned, fiber line as well. |
