My concern is how they are calculating maintenance costs of the copper tail. Telstra's linesmen are some of the few equipped/trained to maintain these lines, and in areas > 30 years old much of the copper is in poor condition or direct buried (read: $$$ to replace). Flooded pits causing comms connectivity issues, radio interference, etc all impact copper performance too.
Speed is often the argument for FTTN vs FTTH, when reliability should be.
The flooded lines is a funny one. When I lived in Bondi my DSL would drop out or start seeing massive slow downs every time it rained. It took me half a year before I realized the correlation too.
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My concern is how they are calculating maintenance costs of the copper tail. Telstra's linesmen are some of the few equipped/trained to maintain these lines, and in areas > 30 years old much of the copper is in poor condition or direct buried (read: $$$ to replace). Flooded pits causing comms connectivity issues, radio interference, etc all impact copper performance too.
Speed is often the argument for FTTN vs FTTH, when reliability should be.
The flooded lines is a funny one. When I lived in Bondi my DSL would drop out or start seeing massive slow downs every time it rained. It took me half a year before I realized the correlation too.