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If the figures presented in this article are an indication, we are ALREADY at the bottom of the list. We are a 3rd world broadband country.
Who do we have to blame for this disaster?
TELSTRA is who!
We could have had high speed 8Mbps ADSL1 BB 8 years ago.
We could have FTTN already being laid in the ground, but we don't, because the pirates running Telstra want the monopoly, with no controls on costs to the end user.
We will remain a Banana Republic and a joke as long as the Feds allow this situation to fester.
It wouldn't have happened, had JH and the dumb Comms ministers had any brains.
None of them or the seat warmers in the bureaucracy have a clue !
To blame Telstra for the Fast Fibre holdup is silly and self deluding. Telstra is ready to go, and will, as soon as the Government gives them the fair operating conditions. Labors plan is good as it will rid the Australian taxpayer of the snout in the trough fact of the dozens of free loading pork barreling small telecoms who are nonfinancial without a Government handout. This will save millions of dollars and the sooner Australia has only one or two service providers the better. My guess is that Telstra will provide the high speed broadband for Australia either in partner ship with Labor or alone if necessary.
The fellow before you is correct. You are wrong! Telstra continue to bemoan anything that can & it has more to do with the way that Sol Trujillo plays the game.
If you were smart enough to research his past you would find out that Mr Sol (the light emitter himself) has done exactly the same thing with the last 2 companies he worked for in the states. They were never particularly caring about the service they provided, they care about the shareholders & that's where their buck stops. He decimated 2 huge companies because neither of them provided the service they were supposed to.
Guess what? Telstra doesn't either but part of the original pact made when the big "T" became PRIVATE was to provide a reasonable & equitable service to all Australians which is something they have failed to do ever since. The other point was to provide service to other companies so as to keep prices competitive. They don't & have fought the ACCC constantly. That is Sol's way & he's getting away with it.
Perhaps the answer is to change the laws & sue Sol instead of Telstra.
Where'd you get "more than 40 times faster than most current services" from?
Rudd states "target that we’ve set, which is 12 megabits per second" http://www.alp.org.au/media/0307/dsiloo230.php
That AU$4.7 billion from Labour is only about half the funding - the other half will come from private enterprise. So yes, maybe it will cost $10b all up - not a problem.
Why is this guy and Coonan saying $4.7b is not enough when it's not the full amount?
It is not enough because all the proposals (so far anyway) are only FTTN (fibre to Node) and not FTTH (fibre to HOME).
The fibre to home aspect will double the figure of money needed.
Labors plan is a waste of taxpayers money as it is ONLY fibre to node.
The reporter must have had a bad night/day as the costs for the FTN were clearly stated by Rudd etc.
Concider this once you have Fibre to Node what is there to stop the providers rolling out Fibre from Node to Home?
In the intrim to be able to provide 98% of the population with 12Mbps or better internet access is far better than what is available right at this time. As for not being able to get any sort of "broadband" access at resonable price I for one had to put on hold my plans for a move away from the City due to lack of infrastructure at the time.
One other Major issue with broadband in Australia is the limited downloads that one can do before being charged a huge fee per Gb or being "shaped" to 64k (or less) once you have reached your "Cap".
So much for watching video on demand, downloading movie trailers and other high bandwith services.
High Speed networks are fine BUT if you cannot use the networks due to poor D/L limits what is the point of high speed if you cannot use it ?
I don't get it at all. I don't even understand why anybody wants to go down the path of laying millions of pieces of string all over the country where a small axe could create major problems. Screw that! How many dickheads over time have burst a water main & how many times has Telstra's lines been shattered by council digging around.
The wireless speeds are promising & though they aren't exactly up their yet, the promise of much greater speeds on a much smaller infrastructure that can be upgraded much more easily haws got to be a better way. By the way, it also means that no single Telecommunications coonsortium can hold all the aces. That's got to be a bonus.
Everywhere you look people move around using their laptops & phones to download via wireless. Why have these unmovable lines when the oceans are raising quickly & some of the homes will disappear. The infrastructure required to put the kind of fast Internet into homes isn't worth it.
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I really don't understand the excuse that Australia has a low population density and so broadband is difficult.
Australia is one of the worlds most urbanised countries with over 90% living in urban areas. To my mind this makes it even easier to roll out highspeed broadband. The problem seems not to be broadband being available but the speed of what is offered.
Australia is in danger of becoming a part of the internet third world.