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Once again the flailing Australian National Broadband Network is in the news with a couple in Melbourne being quoted up to 1.2 million dollars to connect to the NBN. The primary reason for this is the the house in question is seven kilometres of fibre would be needed to connect the property. With the copper network being switched off around Australian, even in places where it is still viable, the only option is to switch to the NBN unless a competing network already exists. The NBN has stated that it can cost $30,000 to run fibre for a "few hundred metres". It is getting to the point where it can be cheaper just to move house if the internet is bad.
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Australian Couple Quoted 1 Million to Connect to the NBN
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 14 2018, @06:12PM (3 children)
Is that the simple, albeit still expensive, way of handling this is permanent concrete or geopolymer conduits run along or under the road. They already need access for power lines, plumbing, etc. So why not start working on a permanent set of conduits you can run multiples of these assets in, with permanently excavated areas they can be worked on/maintained? Once these conduits are placed, given sufficient space allocated for future growth/use you will only have to find an available mounting point for the new service, or splice an existing line with fiber repeater/relay/switch and you can provide service to the new location. As a result of this even individual taps being built out will be reusable in the future as the region expands. Depending on where this is, Australia has a lot of open shoulder on its more rural roads, so this shouldn't be possible.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 15 2018, @04:40AM (2 children)
Sounds expensive. Who pays?
Around here they would flood.
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Friday June 15 2018, @01:13PM (1 child)
People who eat would pay farmers for food, and farmers would use this money to pay for the conduits.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 15 2018, @06:09PM
If domestic groceries double or triple in price, would people still pay, or are they going to buy Chinese stuff full of heavy metals?