Incredible. Just Incredible! Heads are screwed on right down under. After years of bungling they’ve made the right call. Just perfect!
Kevin Rudd has announced that the NBN tender process has been terminated, and that the government will go it alone on a new $43 billion broadband network.
The new wholesale-only network will connect 90% of homes with fibre to the home and will offer 100Mbit/s, with “next-generation” wireless and “third-generation” satellites to cover the remaining population. The network will be “open access” so retail ISPs can build their own products to sell to businesses and consumers.
If they keep this up, I might just start getting a bit homesick! 
source: whirlpool.net.au
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According to the newspaper today, they expect the roll out to be finished in 2018. Surely by 2018, a 100Mbit broadband network will look woefully outdated, and they’ll have to start a new roll out of 1Gbit or 10Gbit or whatever the current technology is.
I’m not saying they shouldn’t do it, but I’m just wondering if they’ll just be forever chasing their tail?
yeah fair point, but compared with what we have today, that’s looking pretty good – i’ve seen some stats at sony, and the percentile drops off rapidly for anything above 64kbits/sec in australia right now
so 64kbit/sec 99% percentile -> 100mb/sec in ten years, that’s a pretty good improvement
and the best bit? i don’t pay australian taxes at the moment har har
100Mbit of filtered content according to the whims of whatever religious loons happen to hold the balance of power.
http://nocleanfeed.com/learn.html
no thanks!
true that
I wouldn’t complain. The UK’s current broadband infrastructure and ISP packages are abysmal in comparison to what Australia has. What I had in Australia back in 2001 was leaps and bounds above the level of service I have here in the UK. I’d give my left nut to have it back.
Darryl
Spoken like a true Aussie!