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Skriven 2012-09-02 12:25:15 av David Drummond (3:640/305)
   Kommentar till text 3238 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.0)
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On 1/09/12 9:30 PM, mark lewis -> David Drummond wrote:

 ml>> no! some choose not to and others live in areas where there is poor
 ml>> coverage if there is any at all (Melita Island comes to mind)...

 DD>> Montana?

 ml> that's the only Melita Island that i know of and it is the only one i
 ml> know of having been spoken of in here in the last few months ;)

I had to look it up in Google Maps - there seems to be a fir sized town a
little south of there...

 ml>> then there're those where it is too expensive and the utilities in
 ml>> those areas want too much to put the equipment in place and make
 ml>> it available at a resonable price...

 DD>> In Australia the government has deemed that Internet access is an
 DD>> "essential of life" and will subsidise satellite access in far
 DD>> flung regional areas.

 ml> wow... how do they propose to keep the infrastructure up and active
 ml> during times of environmental devistation and natural disasters?

Satellite access is faitlr immube form such


 DD>> The people in the wilds of central Australia pay about the same for
 DD>> their access as we do here in the more popular parts.

 ml> this is true for many places over here but some places just don't have
 ml> the service for various reasons... the main one being that of equipment
 ml> and infrastructure cost...

Infrastructure cost is a dish on the house. The satellite is already up there

 ml> heck, i've got that going on right here in my area... this property
 ml> straddles the boundry between two telecos... one has a DSLAM right down
 ml> the road and we get our connection from them over the existing POTS
 ml> lines we've had from them for years... the other telco we've been with
 ml> for probably 15+ years longer and they refuse to put in the equipment so
 ml> we can get internet on the POTS lines we have from them... yes, we have
 ml> two POTS lines and numbers... one from one telco and one from the
 ml> other... at one time, they were long distance to each other... now they
 ml> are not LD to each other any more but it is still aggrivating...
 ml> especially since the one, much larger company, won't put in the
 ml> equipment...

We don't have "telco areas" here, all are everywhere - well, some cell
companies don't deliver to the regional areas as over 90% of the population
live in the cities.

The one telco that goes everywhere was government owned once but then they
privatised it. Service isn't so good any more but they still deliver "out
bush". The other telcos rent space/time from this one's copper to the houses. I
think they put their own DSLAMs in the exchanges though.

 ml> heck, they've got fiber optics running right beside one of our fields
 ml> and those lines run for 25 - 30 miles (or more) to tie into the CO of
 ml> another telco in another town... they say that it is for CO to CO
 ml> connections but i know, since i was out there and actually looked at the
 ml> cables they were laying, that there's numerous fibers in there that are
 ml> dark which could be used to feed folks in this area and still retain
 ml> quite a few for spares... they could easily run "copper for the last
 ml> mile" and still make $$$... it ain't like they are loosing anything on
 ml> the folks out here anyway...

They're rolling out nationwide fibre here now at immense cost....

We're told that soon we will have to surrender our copper and take up fibre
connections.

 ml> greedy corporate bastards...

The telco I spoke of above owns much of the infrastructure around Australia and
therefore has ultimate control of what we get.

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Regards
David

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