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| Business attacks 'new' broadband speed: BROADBLAND | 29 Jul 2008 |
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| 'The broadband network planned by the Federal Government will not be good enough for Australia's needs from the day it is built, industry leaders say. The download speeds of the network will be no better than is available to many consumers now and will be far behind what is already available in competitor countries such as Japan, South Korea and Europe. "I'm incredibly concerned that the Government's got blinkers on and is not being foresightful and doing what Hong Kong are doing, putting in a fibre-to-the-home, a fibre-to-the-premises network," said the managing director of Adam Internet, Scott Hicks. Consuers will not be able to use broadband for high definition digital television - which will be introduced next year - nor for other services such as quality video-conferencing. Mr. Hicks's views were backed by leading digital media industry figures in a round table discussion published in The Advertiser's SA Business Journal today. Decent access to a high-speed network was "critical from the competitive point of view" for business, said the managing director of Via Media, Anthony Coles. ...'Business attacks 'new' broadband speed: BROADBLAND (475.0K PDF) |
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