[LINK] Bush Broadband

[George Bray]

ABC RN's Bush Telegraph

Interesting reports of broadband over power lines trial, and the
Albury free wireless trial.


Podcast:
<http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/current/audioonly/bth_20070613.mp3>

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Bush Broadband

By Maria Tickle

Wednesday, 13/06/2007

If you're like me you're probably really confused about the future of
broadband in this country. But at the end of the day all I really want
to know is will I get fast, reliable download at an affordable price?

And is this proposed new national optical fibre network the only way
to go to achieve this or are there other technologies that would work
better in regional Australia?

In this report: Paul Budde, Independent telecommunications analyst;
Lynda Summers Chair of CountryTell, Chair of the Regional Communities
Consultative Counsel; Ben Hamilton, General Manager Corporate
Strategy, Country Energy