Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Mon 27th Apr 2009 21:36 UTC
Earlier this month, Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, gave the go-ahead on a vast project that will establish a national high-speed network providing 90% of homes and businesses in Australia with fiber-optic 100Mbps Internet, courtesy of the government; the last 10% will be covered with a 12Mbps connection via wireless and satellite. Not only will a vast amount of taxpayers be guaranteed an Internet connection, but this will also provide 37,000 jobs at the apex of construction, a plus in these troubling times. Now CSIRO has jumped on the bandwagon with ideas of how to provide the last 10% (and anyone else who wants a wireless option) with a solid wireless Internet connection with speeds eventually reaching 100Mbps versus the government's proposed 12Mbps. They'll be utilizing the analog TV infrastructure for widespread wireless, which is obviously largely in place already. All in all, both networks most likely won't be available to any of the public for at least five years.
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2008-05-26
This new broadband network is potentially useless.
On the surface of it, you'll get incredibly fast downloads. But if the compulsory internet filtering/censorship plan goes ahead, we'll be paying through the nose for all the extra computers the ISPs will need to implement the filtering, AND we'll see no real-world increase in bitrates from our current broadband.
That's right: The new fibre-optic broadband network will only mask one of the effects of the censorship that will be imposed. Anyone planning on moving to Australia to take advantage of ultra-fast Bittorrent downloads will have a rude shock too as all Bittorrent traffic will be filtered OUT.
Until Kevin Rudd comes on the TV and tells us that the Conroy's Folly plan is dead, we should all be skeptical of this new network.