[LINK] Australia shows US how a real broadband strategy works !!!!

[Adam Todd]

At 21:34 03/07/2008, Kim Holburn wrote:
>A good review of the broadband policy?
>
>http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080702-australia-shows-us-how-a-real-broadband-strategy-works.html
>link
>http://tinyurl.com/4ll5on
>
> > Australia shows US how a real broadband strategy works
> >
> > By Nate Anderson | Published: July 02, 2008 - 01:45PM CT
> >
> > Australia's government has launched an ambitious effort to build a
> > new fiber-to-the-node national network that will provide at least
> > 12Mbps connections to 98 percent of Australia's population. The two

Glad that was the US and not the UK.  The UK appears to have 20MBps 
fibre to the household in large populated areas.  Yes that's MB not Mb.

Mind you, fibre isn't much use when you live in the bush, and you're 
only means of communications is a mobile phone :)