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sbiddle: Biddle Internet (NASDAK:BI) has today announced it will be rolling out a FTTT (Fibre To The Toilet) network in New Zealand.
"Every household has a toilet and it was an obvious choice to run our fibre using the existing pipes direct to the bathroom. Most people spend plenty of time as it is in the bathroom so they'll have the added advantage of being able to surf the net at the same time" says CTI Steve Biddle. "We'll be approaching John Key this afternoon to see if we can work with his people to establish a public/private partnership for rolling out our fibre and believe we can do this for well less than the $1.5 billion estimate. We all know that NZ is on the verge of bankruptcy so every dollar saved will be a dollar more than people can get back in their wallet with tax cuts"
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idlearts: I agree the network needs major investment but I wouldn't want to be the one to commit to 1.5 billion on something that should have been done a decade ago, not when you consider the pace of scientific discovery and current research, I'd be very unwilling to shell out on a fiber network in light of the possibilities of Quantum communication methods being firmly on the horizon.
http://www.quantum.at/research/quantum-teleportation-communication-entanglement.html
sbiddle: Biddle Internet (NASDAK:BI) has today announced it will be rolling out a FTTT (Fibre To The Toilet) network in New Zealand.
mushion22:
One thing we should be watching out for, though, is Platic Optical Fibre - a technology that could potentially reduce the cost of rolling out a fibre network if it becomes mainstream, mainly because its less finicky than glass fibre. It's such a slow process splicing fibres and making clean terminations onto patch panels - I dont envy the technicians tasked with installing a few million of the them!
mushion22:It might just be easier to buy Chorus,
mushion22: and especially to increase international bandwith (and reduce data costs).
hellonearthisman:mushion22: and especially to increase international bandwith (and reduce data costs).
This is something that was not really address by National, or did I miss something *again*.
hellonearthisman:
That seems a smart idea for the win, but the meaning of the word compition goes owol.
pjv3: I do think it is a great idea, but right now our concentration should be focused on trying to improve what we have now rather than making it seem better. Maybe it is just my ISP, but I dont really feel I'm getting any more value out of my current plan than what I was getting 5 years ago.
Otherwise we will all end up with 10Gbit FTTH connection but with a 1:1,000,000 contention ratio.
andysh: Most of you are talking about how FTTH is going to increase the speed of broadband, but I am guessing that it is more than just the internet. With FTTH it gives opportunities for other things, such as other companies are able to start up a new paytv, freeview could broadcast over the network as well.
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