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The City of Chattanooga in the US state of Tennessee stands as a beacon to regional centres around the world who hope for a better future for their communities through deployment if high-speed broadband. Chattanooga was the first city in the US to adopt fixed-line broadband at speeds of 1 gigabit per second across the …

I’m speaking at the CeBIT eGovernment forum later this afternoon, so I’ve decided to catch as many sessions as possible while also going for a wander around the show floor later. The first speaker for the eGovernment forum was the federal Special Minister of State, the Hon. Gary Gray, whose presentation who talked about the …

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 …

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 …

A report from the Australian Federal Government has found that Australians would rather use the Internet to interact with government services than to talk to someone face to face. According to Interacting with Government 2009, people  aged 55 to 64 were also the most frequent users of the Internet as a means of interaction with …

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 …

If you wanted evidence of the rapid spread of the internet into the lives Australians, look no further than the figures recently released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Its report Household Use of Information Technology found that access to the internet at home between 1998 and 2008 increased by a factor of four from …

Telecommunications analyst Paul Budde has posted a thought provoking post on his Communication Breakdown blog at Business Spectator.  Budde contends that if we execute well on the National Broadband Network it will have enormous benefits for our country. To do so however the deployment of the NBN will have to be done in conjunction with …

Businesses of all sizes have not really gotten their heads around the NBN

There is a good chance that faster broadband can help us deal with some of the issues that we will have to face as Australia’s population ages.