While Australia’s new government is announcing plans to deploy a national fibre network by 2020, many are not convinced by the details. Originally, the plan was to build a fiber network to cover all 13.2 million premises. But, the new government has a different vision. The government has decided to roll out the network only in new housing developments, with copper-wire pairs covering the last mile. This change will increase the costs of building the network, and some people are skeptical that it will work in the end. The OTN…
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