World Bank says broadband is a ‘no regrets’ investment (0)
7/06/10 •
The World Bank’s lead ICT policy specialist Dr Tim Kelly has described investment in broadband infrastructure as a “no regrets” policy where even if the investment does not immediately deliver the direct benefits expected in terms of jobs and competitiveness, it will benefit the economy as a whole in terms of capacity-building, opportunity creation or [...]
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Broadband rewriting the rules on media ownership (0)
4/06/10 •
Australia’s media ownership laws have long been contentious, placing barriers on cross ownership of media and restricting (for better or worse, depending on your point of view) the reach that media companies can have across Australia’s population. It’s long been touted that these restrictions become meaningless in a broadband age, where a TV station for [...]
Sydney residents to get first glimpse at the broadband-connected home of the future (0)
7/06/10 •
The NSW Government has announced that 40 homes in the Sydney suburb of Middleton Grange will be the first to experience life connected to the National Broadband Network thanks to a trial service being established in that suburb. The 40 homes are being connected using high speed fibre cabling and will have access to a [...]
Point Cook residents share their experience of life in a post-NBN world (0)
7/19/10 •
For most Australians the data speeds promised by the National Broadband Network won’t become a reality for some years yet. But residents of Point Cook in Melbourne are already getting a taste for a world where connections to the Internet runs at 100Mbit/sec. Point Cook is a test site for Telstra’s fibre-to-the-home trial network, with [...]
Optus hits 50Mbit/sec on 4G network (0)
7/19/10 •
While much of the discussion of the future of broadband services has focused on the Federal Government’s ongoing fibre roll-out, the commercial sector has been moving ahead with enhancements to wireless infrastructure. Last week Optus announced a successful trial of a 4G wireless network running at faster than 50Mbit/sec using LTE technology, which is a [...]
