Management Michael Posted April 7, 2009 Management Report Share Posted April 7, 2009 The Federal Government has scrapped the controversial broadband tender process and will instead form a new public/private company to build a national network, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has announced. Unveiling the surprise plan today, Mr Rudd described the $43 billion fibre-to-the-home scheme as the single largest infrastructure project in the country's history and said it would create 25,000 jobs a year during construction, with 37,000 in the busiest year. Full source here: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/04/07/2536726.htm Pretty good start in my opinion, but 8 years? And how much will the access pricing cost? Still I think this is well worth the investment and hopefully will be done properly and not monopolized in the future like Telstra was. Any thoughts on this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lindsey Posted April 7, 2009 Report Share Posted April 7, 2009 Any money that they won't do that in the NT. >_< Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Management Michael Posted April 7, 2009 Author Management Report Share Posted April 7, 2009 (edited) Any money that they won't do that in the NT. >_< Yeah I'll bet $43 billion :P I'll be happy with a competitive priced 12Mbs. Edit: Just realized my title says "Australia's $43 Fibre-to-the-home network", that's one cheap network. :lol: Edited April 7, 2009 by Michael Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lindsey Posted April 7, 2009 Report Share Posted April 7, 2009 Yeah I'll bet $43 billion :P I'll be happy with a competitive priced 12Mbs. Edit: Just realized my title says "Australia's $43 Fibre-to-the-home network", that's one cheap network. :lol: LOL, well I'll be happy with $100/m Downspeed=>50mbs Upspeed=>40mbs :P That will never happen in Australia tho. It may but not in the NT ROFL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshua Posted April 9, 2009 Report Share Posted April 9, 2009 finally. a network that's not redundant tech before it's even built 8 years though! i want meh fibre now! lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lindsey Posted April 11, 2009 Report Share Posted April 11, 2009 And...I was correct lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshua Posted April 13, 2009 Report Share Posted April 13, 2009 wait.... people live in the NT? :P haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lindsey Posted April 13, 2009 Report Share Posted April 13, 2009 wait.... people live in the NT? :P haha Yes :P , It's amazing hey ? ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiGiT Posted February 22, 2011 Report Share Posted February 22, 2011 Yes <img src='http://www.devfuse.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':P' /> , It's amazing hey ? <img src='http://www.devfuse.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' /> i thought they were eaten by crocs :s Hopefully this will be expandable, because a 100mbit line isn't that new, optus does it, a 4g network would do it . . . honestly it needs a gbit connection!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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