Posted April 7th, 2009 by ac3raven
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A National fiber broadband network to reach 90% of Australia’s residents with speeds of 100mbps and up. The partially government funded infrastructure overhaul will cost approximately AUS$43 billion over the next 8 years, and the network will be available for any ISP to use.
The government intends to create a public/private company to contruct the network, and 51% of the company will be owned by the government. Five years after the development of the network, the government will sell off all of it’s share of the company, leaving it in the hands of the private sector.
What’s still unclear is what rules the government will impose on the use of the fiber lines, and whether there will be regulations preventing monopolization of the network. Not to mention how the private company will operate when the government relinquishes its majority share.
Posted February 2nd, 2009 by ac3raven
While we all celebrate Charter Communication’s 60Mbps, South Korea is planning to implement broadband infrastructure in urban areas that would allow for 1Gbps download speed. That’s enough to download a 120 minute movie in 12 seconds.
The South Korean government is investing 34 trillion Won (24 billion Dollars) to improve broadband speeds by 2012. Though the 1Gbps speed wil only be available in the most populated areas at first, you can still get 100-150Mbps speeds in rural areas.
The United States is 17th in the world for average broadband speeds and deployment range.
Posted January 17th, 2009 by ac3raven
Text of bill (PDF)
Section 3101 of the bill calls for six billion dollars to be invested in broadband infrastructure; an excerpt:
(2) ensure that grant recipients—
(A) meet buildout requirements;
(B) maximize use of the supported infra10
structure by the public;
(C) operate basic and advanced broadband
service networks on an open access basis;
(D) operate advanced wireless broadband
service on a wireless open access basis; and
(E) adhere to the principles contained in
the Federal Communications Commission’s
broadband policy statement (FCC 05-151,
adopted August 5, 2005).
Ctrl+F and type “3101″ to find the section on broadband.
