* Posts by Len Brown

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nbn™ needs copper to build FTTN: another 15,000 km of it

Len Brown

Again the original promise of FTTH is reninged

We were told by the Government all of Australia premises would get Fibre. Then it was to the Node. Now some will get it via copper - copper Telstra had spent 100+ years laying around Australia. But NBN wanted to make the copper redundant.

By the time the NBN is completed, there will be companies like Google et all who will be able to give us other solutions for our internet, most likely faster than a lot of premises without FTTH.

Regardless of political parties in power, we were sold FTTH - which would have made Australians able to proceed in business and personal ventures at best available speed.

I liken this to Victoria's desalination plant in Wonthaggi . My son, an Apprentice Electrician, was paid $4200 per week to work on it. And it has never been used - and only will to con Victorian citizens it was worth the money. We only needed to build a pipeline to the excess water from our Northern states to fill our existing dams.