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Cornered! National Broadband Network: the questions that should have been asked
Cornered! National Broadband Network: the questions that should have been asked | National Broadband Network: the questions that should have been asked |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Tuesday, 09 September 2008 | |
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I contrasted this with the UK approach, and the occasion for that comment was the release by the Broadband Stakeholders Group (BSG) of two well researched reports examining the many facets of the complex, costly and far reaching implications of extending fibre deep into the telecommunications access network. Those two reports: "A Framework for Evaluating the Value of Next Generation Broadband" and "Models for Efficient and Effective Public Sector Intervention in Next Generation Broadband Access Networks" have now been joined by a third: "The costs of deploying fibre-based next-generation broadband infrastructure" commissioned from Analysys Mason. All its modelling is based on the UK, a country with three times the population of Australia in one thirtieth of the land mass (OK much of Australia is unpopulated so let's take Telstra's figure for Next G - 99 percent of the population and two million square kms. That still makes the UK only an eighth of the populated area of Australia (0.25m sq kms v 2m sq kms). The report was funded jointly by the BSG and by the UK Government's Department for Business Enterprise & Regulatory Reform (BERR) (Now there's an interesting idea: A government department focussed on regulatory reform!). Its aim, according to BSG chairman, Kip Meek, is " to provide a key quantitative input into the independent review of next-generation broadband infrastructure and services being conducted by Francesco Caio at the request of BERR." He adds: "The report is therefore intended to be used to inform the debate surrounding various next-generation broadband issues." CONTINUED |
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