Oz government will build its own broadband network
AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTER KEVIN RUDD has dropped a bombshell by announcing that his government will build its own $30 billion broadband network rather than putting the job out to contract.
Rudd said that he was abandoning the tender process which was intended to bring the Oz network up to speed because private sector companies had failed to offer value for money.
What's that Skip? The broadband tender process has fallen down the well?
The PM promised as part of his election campaign in 2007 to prevent Australia becoming a "broadband backwater" by upgrading the country's existing copper network, saying that "slow broadband is holding our national economy back."
Singapore-owned Optus and Canada's Axia NetMedia had put forward tenders offering speeds of up to 12 megabits per second, but Rudd insisted this wasn't good enough and now intends to form a company which will build a fibre network offering speeds of up to 100 megabits per second to 90 per cent of the population. µ
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Yay, Now the Australians can be censored and filtered even faster by there govt. congrats aussies
Building a super fast Internet infrastructure that will be filtered to the point of uselessness? Where have I heard that one before? *cough*China*cough*
I say we should stick to the old method o letting corporations build the infrastructure and THEN filter it to oblivion. Worked for the UK, and was cheaper...
I don't know how you think corporations built the infrastructure in Britain. BT was a tax payer funded monopoly and, in terms of infrastructure, pretty much still is.
you know this will be delayed and over budget.
This is going to be magnificent for Australia private services are crap compared to governent owned services you idiots are too stupid to realize it
Look at time warner you get a 40gb cap
Now Australia gets 100mb fiber optic service
If the filter is introduced, it will only be until the following election until it is removed.
Coming from Down under where you can pay staggering amounts for your data cap itself having fibre is still ultimately pointless if you still have some pathethic 10gb cap. Hooray for eating though your cap in 5 mins before you get throttled to dialup
the cap probably exists exactly BECAUSE current internet is a pile of shit.
12mbit plans are really backwater, most providers in other countries can already supply more on the low end. It's good that the government stepped in.
12mbit connections the best private sector could come up with. LOL
I'm on Telstra cable extreme, We are not that crap down here in Oz,I'm on a 30megabit connection already. I look forward to a 100mbit line that would at least bring us up to speed with Japan's current speeds.
They need to upgrade too me thinks... offering me a 17mb/s connection in the mail and when I call them it turns out it maxes at 0.5mb/s (yes there is a decimal in there)