[LINK] Indonesia Overtaking Australia with Wireless Internet

[David Boxall]

On 3/06/2011 1:14 PM, grove at zeta.org.au wrote:
> ...
> I am hoping this conference won't be used to once again bang on about the
> NBN and the wisdom in not doing it.   It's not $43Bn anymore, either
> but apparently will be a bit less.   I wonder if wireless is more
> suitable for Indonesia given the geology of the area, its concentrated
> (and dispersed) population centres and that wireless is a lot more easy
> to spy on in an ad-hoc method than other technologies?   I actually do not
> consider Indonesia to be a good comparison to Australia for networked
> technologies as there are many cultural and geographical differences
> between the two....

Hear hear!

Indonesia is how many islands? Most of Australia is in one lump.

Australia has a well-established landline network (showing that it can 
be done and does work). Does Indonesia?

Plus the usual technical arguments.

I think the latest figure is $26 billion.

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