Gavin Denby wrote:
The Big problems here will be Geographic in Nature
No not Geographic, demographic. They will only deploy Fibre to those rich enough to pay for it. Most of Telecom's trunk network is Fibre. It is only the very edges of the network that is copper in most towns. That is why it took so frickin' long for them to deploy ADSL. They couldn't just slap a DSLAM at a central exchange. DSL only works on copper. They had to put gear in the green boxes next to the road and in the ground to convert between Fibre and copper. That is what happened in my parent's neighbourhood. For ages the reason Telecom kept giving me for why they couldn't install DSL (even though the town centre had been connected for months) was because the main trunk line to my parents neighbourhood was Fibre. And my parents live in one of the most prosperous neighbourhoods in their town.
One of the best options IMHO would be to get BCL to use the back haul line for data, set up feeds and radio systems, and move all TV to Satellite to free spectrum for radio based internet signals. They could resell to local ISP doing wireless networks for the short haul and High speed to the BCL backbone
Wireless is arse. Handy but still arse. It requires more equipment, more technical knowledge/man power to install, etc. Nothing beats plugging something in to an existing wall socket for ease of use & cost. If anyone has a chance at beating up on Telecom for broadband on something that's not delivered over telephone lines it is the power companies. They have the entire country wired already and with better quality cable. I want fibre. We'll get it eventually but it's going to take a while. Regards