Comments on: Telstra has to morph into a different kind of beast http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/15/telstra-has-to-morph-into-a-different-kind-of-beast/ now with extra source Sun, 12 Feb 2012 07:13:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Stilgherrian http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/15/telstra-has-to-morph-into-a-different-kind-of-beast/#comment-37736 Stilgherrian Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:25:30 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/15/telstra-has-to-morph-into-a-different-kind-of-beast/#comment-37736 <strong>@Meski:</strong> Actually, Senator Conroy's point is that they're doing the economic modelling on a projected asset life of 30 years, not 20, and he was chastising the modellers who were using the 20 year figure. But... all that said... I don't think that copper lasting longer than fibre, whether true or not, is relevant. Fibre can do things that copper can't, end of story. Also, the analysis needs to look at the total cost of ownership of a network over a period of time, which has to take into account maintenance, upgrade and break-fix costs. What they are, I don't know. But you can't pick one aspect, e.g. life of the cable hardware, as the sole measure. @Meski: Actually, Senator Conroy’s point is that they’re doing the economic modelling on a projected asset life of 30 years, not 20, and he was chastising the modellers who were using the 20 year figure.

But… all that said… I don’t think that copper lasting longer than fibre, whether true or not, is relevant. Fibre can do things that copper can’t, end of story.

Also, the analysis needs to look at the total cost of ownership of a network over a period of time, which has to take into account maintenance, upgrade and break-fix costs. What they are, I don’t know. But you can’t pick one aspect, e.g. life of the cable hardware, as the sole measure.

]]> By: meski http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/15/telstra-has-to-morph-into-a-different-kind-of-beast/#comment-37725 meski Tue, 15 Sep 2009 06:41:01 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/15/telstra-has-to-morph-into-a-different-kind-of-beast/#comment-37725 A life of 20 years? You get better life than that from the last km of copper, and some of that is really old. A life of 20 years? You get better life than that from the last km of copper, and some of that is really old.

]]> By: Stilgherrian http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/15/telstra-has-to-morph-into-a-different-kind-of-beast/#comment-37698 Stilgherrian Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:42:36 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/15/telstra-has-to-morph-into-a-different-kind-of-beast/#comment-37698 Bother. I got the name of a company wrong. The outfit rolling out 4G wireless broadband in Perth is <a href="http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/VividWireless-to-build-Perth-4G-network-Seven-VHAHV?OpenDocument" rel="nofollow">VividWireless</a>. Opinions seem to differ as to whether the "W" is capitalised, but it is always one word. For some reason. Bother. I got the name of a company wrong. The outfit rolling out 4G wireless broadband in Perth is VividWireless. Opinions seem to differ as to whether the “W” is capitalised, but it is always one word. For some reason.

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