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VIRTUALISATION Government demonstrates lack of broadband vision again
VIRTUALISATION Government demonstrates lack of broadband vision again | Government demonstrates lack of broadband vision again |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Thursday, 08 March 2007 | |
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"It is indeed welcome news that the larger telcos in Australia are willing to consider how best to rollout a next generation network that would benefit millions of consumers – even if it would be contained to a major metropolitan footprint." She then made what at first glance seemed like an innocuous comment: "Clearly we cannot countenance the same inefficiencies that accompanied the duplicated rollout of HFC cable in the 90s." I agree, and while such a possibility is remote. It will be no thanks the Government if such an undesirable scenario is avoided. In case you are not familiar with the HFC debacle: Optus, frustrated at the price charged by Telstra for access to the copper pairs providing the only access to the great majority of Australian homes and businesses decided it had to build its own network and the only way to make this viable was for it to carry pay TV as well as telephony (never mind that the technology of carrying telephony along with pay TV on a HFC cable was barely out of the laboratory). |
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