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Point three makes me weep. In Australia the government started building a nationwide fibre to the home network. Wholesale only, so any ISP could provide services on it.

They got about 10% of the way in, then a new conservative government got in power and stomped on the plan. Instead they're doing fibre to the node for everyone.

Why have gigabit fibre when you can have slower, less reliable, more expensive copper connections that go a whopping 12Mbit!? Faster even, if the node happens to be sitting in your front lawn.

parent ClassyJacket 10 years ago

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