Australia: Broadband challenge reveals peculiarities of the information superhighway

Stephen Bartholomeusz
July 12, 2006
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"Telecom networks aren't like gas or electricity networks. As yet no one has found a more efficient way to distribute gas or electricity than using pipes and wires.

A FTTN network could be rendered obsolete almost by the time it was built, at a cost of $3 billion to $4 billion, by other technologies — wireless broadband or power lines, for instance. "