Deployment costs of rural broadband technologies

J. C. Ellershaw, Jennifer Riding, Alan Lee, An V. Tran, Lin Guan, Rod Tucker, Timothy D. Smith, Erich Stumpf · 2017 · Open MIND

Summary. This paper analyzes deployment costs for three broadband technologies in rural Victoria: passive optical networks, fiber-to-the-node DSL, and WiMAX. The researchers used geographic data to map actual household locations and calculate optimized network costs. Fiber installation dominates costs for all technologies. FTTN DSL offers the lowest deployment cost for 20 Mbit/s service, while PON becomes most cost-effective at 50 Mbit/s and above.

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Ellershaw, J. C., Riding, J., Lee, A., Tran, A. V., Guan, L., Tucker, R., Smith, T. D., & Stumpf, E.. (2017). Deployment costs of rural broadband technologies. Open MIND. https://doi.org/10.4225/03/5906c1c726289

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DOI: 10.4225/03/5906c1c726289
Countries: Australia
Regions: Oceania
Categories: broadband-and-digital
Added: 2026-04-28