[LINK] Fibre gets nimble: small telcos weaving fiber web

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Stilgherrian wrote:
> On 10/08/2009, at 12:00 PM, Richard Chirgwin wrote:
>> 92% of Australia's population lives in cities of more than 1 million
>> people (dated 1997), using "statistical division" as the marker for a
>> city. (No, I'm not going to go into critiques of Australia's  
>> statistical
>> geography; if someone wants to argue that point, do it with the ABS.)
> 
> This sounds like a great way to spend a Saturday night, eh?
> 
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According to the CIA...
Population:
Australia: 21,262,641 (July 2009 est.)
US          307,212,123 (July 2009 est.)

Area:
Australia
 > total: 7,741,220 sq km
 > country comparison to the world: 12
 > land: 7,682,300 sq km
 > water: 58,920 sq km
 > note: includes Lord Howe Island and Macquarie Island

US
 > total: 9,826,675 sq km
 > country comparison to the world: 9
 > land: 9,161,966 sq km
 > water: 664,709 sq km
 > note: includes only the 50 states and District of Columbia

Australia's Population/Communications:
> urban population: 89% of total population (2008)
> rate of urbanization: 1.2% annual rate of change (2005-10 est.)

> 
> Telephones - main lines in use:
> 9.76 million (2007)
> country comparison to the world: 24
> Telephones - mobile cellular:
> 21.26 million (2007)
> country comparison to the world: 36
> Telephone system:
> general assessment: excellent domestic and international service
> domestic: domestic satellite system; significant use of radiotelephone in areas of low population density; rapid growth of mobile cellular telephones
> international: country code - 61; landing point for the SEA-ME-WE-3 optical telecommunications submarine cable with links to Asia, the Middle East, and Europe; the Southern Cross fiber optic submarine cable provides links to New Zealand and the United States; satellite earth stations - 19 (10 Intelsat - 4 Indian Ocean and 6 Pacific Ocean, 2 Inmarsat - Indian and Pacific Ocean regions, 2 Globalstar, 5 other) (2007)
> Radio broadcast stations:
> AM 262, FM 345, shortwave 1 (1998)
> Television broadcast stations:
> 104 (1997)

> Internet hosts:
> 11.134 million (2008)
> country comparison to the world: 7
> Internet users:
> 11.24 million (2007)
> country comparison to the world: 28
<https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/>

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