Economic crisis fueling open network interest
Aug 10, 2009 11:11 AM, By Carol Wilson
Australia leads the way with $43 billion investment in broadband, but is the US political will strong enough to follow that lead?
Snippets: Australian consultant Paul Budde Communication. But while the US is embarking on a small-scale $7.2 billion broadband stimulus program that takes a piecemeal approach to boosting broadband, Australia’s government has placed a $43 billion bet that has even brought incumbent service provider Telstra to the table in the effort to build a national wholesale fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network. [...] “The industry has, for a long time, agreed that fiber is the next-generation network,” Budde said in an interview. “If you start making investments in infrastructure under the stimulus, you cannot say it’s just because you want Internet or HDTV that you build fiber-to-the-home. But if you start talking about the broader benefits of this area – scaled education, e-health, smart grids, then it make sense. [...]
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[fac: as the one-time editorial bastion of the common carrier industry with over a hundred years under its belt, Telephony Mag would have been loathed to print something like this as recently as five or ten years ago ... today, however, in the interest of hedging one's bets, I suppose, and because there's really no telling from whence the butter will arrive ...]
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