The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
Of course, when it comes to sewers not all
things are equal. The London sewage system is state of the art, despite
its age, and well suited to the broadband age. Move further afield,
even as close as some outer London boroughs, and the picture changes.
With smaller tunnels and lower ceilings, most of the advantages
are quickly flushed away. Indeed, that's if there is any usable sewer
network at all. There is also a question mark hanging over the small
matter of system maintenance.
The nature of sewers is such that
you cannot just roll up, drop down and examine a pipe. It must not be
forgotten that the primary purpose of sewers is to move sewage after
all. Anything that interferes with the sewage companies ability to do
that is not going to be tolerated.
Quite apart from the problems
of recruiting network engineers who are willing to work in a sewer
environment. It is not your bog standard geek appointment after all.
At
the end of the day, however, I suspect that financial considerations
will win out. There can be no denying that the UK needs faster
broadband, and it needs it delivered as quickly as possible.
Anything
that can help deliver the promise of a 100Mbps broadband nation,
without breaking the budget, has got to be taken seriously. You would
have to be round the bend to think otherwise.
David Bass
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