NBN fixed wireless

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What is the cost per km for fibre delivered and installed anyway?

This is well off-topic, so I started a new topic:

NBN fibre to the premises - what are the real costs, benefits and value?

Continuing the discussion from NBN fixed wireless: Varies, depending on conditions. Most of the cost is in the digging. The fibre itself is dirt cheap (one rule of thumb that I was given a decade or so ago is that copper which used to cost the PMG ~$10,000/km could be replaced by fibre costing <$300/km). Then there’s the fact that, while copper begins to degrade markedly after about three decades, the anticipated service life of fibre is a century or more (so the cost is amortised over a perio…