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Telecommunications Terria takes its message to Tamworth
Telecommunications Terria takes its message to Tamworth | Terria takes its message to Tamworth |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Thursday, 20 November 2008 | |
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This approach would extend the life of the DSLAMs many of its members have installed in metropolitan exchanges to deliver ADSL services. These are likely to be left stranded once fibre is run from these exchanges to nodes in the street. Egan said it was critical that country Australians were not treated like second class citizens. “Regional and rural areas contribute 65 percent of Australia’s export income, but they are the ones we seem to ignore when it comes to the availability of critical telecommunications infrastructure." “Australia’s primary producers typically live in the areas most under serviced by existing broadband infrastructure. As key contributors to the national economy, it is simply not good enough that many have to fund the installation of their own transceivers so they can access broadband services.” He promised that Terria would lodge a "crackerjack bid" for the new National Broadband Network next week, and said "addressing the issues of access equity and pricing parity in regional areas is a central part of that bid...the new National Broadband Network provides an opportunity to bring regional and rural Australia up to scratch with most metropolitan areas.”
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