[LINK] Australia 'test bed' for broadband

[Tom Koltai]

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> From: link-bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au 
> [mailto:link-bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of David Boxall
> Sent: Tuesday, 19 April 2011 4:41 PM
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> Subject: [LINK] Australia 'test bed' for broadband
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> <http://www.smh.com.au/business/australia-test-bed-for-broadba
nd-20110417-1djqm.html>
> THE United Nations official overseeing telecommunications has given 
> the national broadband network project a tick of approval.
>
> Australia's unique market conditions, geography and low population 
> make the project viable but few other countries are likely to copy the
publicly funded monopoly model.
...

Thanks for the Heads Up David, an excellent (PC) article.

The secretary-general of the International Telecommunications Union, Dr
Hamadoun Toure, said:

Quote/
"...the first decade of the millennium was dominated by mobile growth
worldwide and he made the surprising prediction that ''the second decade
of the millennium will be broadband''.
/Quote

An interesting confirmation of the 4G wireless naysayers.
As the users of tomorrow :


A) come up against the bottleneck of LTE (constricted by consumer
disfavour for thousands of towers), Broadband will be back-in favour...
B) get older, tethered won't seem so bad...

TomK