[MLB-WIRELESS] OT but interesting: Rural cost analysis

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>Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2003 22:14:05 -0400
>From: S Woodside <sbwoodside at yahoo.com>
>Subject: [wireless-longhaul] Fwd: FW: [BB-Wireless] FW: [CI] Rural
>	Broadband	Deployment Analysis
>To: wireless-longhaul at openict.net
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>Begin forwarded message:
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>>  From: "michael gurstein" <mgurst at vcn.bc.ca>
>>  Date: Thu Jun 19, 2003  7:43:41  AM America/Montreal
>>  To: <cpi-ua at vancouvercommunity.net>, "community informatics"
>>  <communityinformatics at vancouvercommunity.net>
>>  Subject: FW: [BB-Wireless] FW: [CI] Rural Broadband Deployment Analysis
>>  Reply-To: communityinformatics at vancouvercommunity.net
>>
>>
>>
>>  -----Original Message-----
>>  From: Don Cameron [mailto:donhome at mudgeeab.com.au]
>>  Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2003 8:18 AM
>>  To: broadband-wireless at vancouvercommunity.net
>>  Subject: RE: [BB-Wireless] FW: [CI] Rural Broadband Deployment Analysis
>>
>>
>>  A PS to this thread of possibly some interest-
>>
>>  Over the past few weeks I have conducted an analysis of our businesses
>>  (rural) telephone accounts, and we are rapidly approaching the point
>>  where
>>  mobile telephony is cheaper than any form of land-line telephony.
>>
>>  Of note; each of our 60 fibre-based landlines incurs a line
>>  rental/service
>>  overhead of A$39.90 per month; this is before we make a single
>>  phone-call.
>>  We have 16 mobile telephones, each used an amount equal to a land-line
>>  phone, and the average cost of our mobiles is A$45.00 per month
>>  (including
>>  calls). This amount is in fact decreasing over time as a larger number
>>  of
>>  competitors enter our market. Considering we pay additional fees to
>>  have our
>>  land-lines serviced and must maintain a PABX valued at over
>>  A$100,000.00...
>>  I estimate that within the next 12 months we will fully migrate to
>>  mobile
>>  telephony and disconnect all land-based Telco infrastructure.
>>
>>  Add to this... all of our bandwidth is now carried by WiFi, so we may
>>  well
>>  be able to cut all of our land-lines without any performance
>>  degradation and
>>  achieve a significant financial savings.
>>
>>  I believe this is the future of rural telecommunications.
>>
>  > Rgds, Don


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