As we all know, it's a particularly exciting time in the Australian telecommunications landscape. The NBN has been announced and is the focus of much discussion - access regimes, pricing structures, coverage maps and percentages, with the odd foray into relevant and practical policy making behind these, and many more issues concerning the NBN.
The "what type" and "how" are now dealt with - FTTP, wireless and satellite. What should now become the important discussion point is "what for" - the applications and uses of the NBN. 100Mbits is a fantastic speed and is a key that has the potential to unlock many doors across many "rooms" - Education, Health, Commerce, Government, Social Interaction, Environment etc. All of these aspects of our society will reap the benefits of true broadband speeds. However, access must be affordable and universal.
ATUG feels that the NBN is a necessary and important step toward Australia's future. We are holding a future forum series dedicated to nutting out the issues surrounding the NBN. ATUG are very interested in getting member's views and thoughts on this and welcome you to our forums or to post comments on the blog.
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Guys,
Just catching up with your submission to the Senate committee.
Senator LUNDY—Thank you very much. Could I ask you to take something on notice. Do INTUG or indeed ATUG have any research or reports on the associated economic growth with higher bandwidth networks or the growth that is facilitated directly by higher bandwidth networks? Could you please forward that information to the committee?
Perhaps you'd like to link to it from here?
You're right. Now the conversation needs to start being around "what for?" How about we start to use this stuff? A whirlpool for atug users maybe? How about forums.atug.edu.au?
Posted by: simonfj | October 16, 2009 at 10:23 AM