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Victoria’s pitch for NBN HQ with $5 million ICT investment E-mail
by Peter Dinham   
Sunday, 26 July 2009
With NSW and Victoria vying for the honours to host the National Broadband Network Corporation the Victorian Government has upped the ante with its announcement that it is investing $5 million to develop and trial next generation ICT applications.

The Victorian Premier, John Brumby, says the $5 million investment will help next generation applications developed in Victoria “move into homes and businesses faster, helping secure the Victorian economy and create jobs in this difficult economic time.”

According to Brumby, Victoria is already well-placed to become a world leader for developing next generation ICT applications and, he maintains, this further investment would “help to ensure that technology was user-friendly and ready to solve the ICT problems of the future.

“The NBN will provide underlying fibre optic broadband infrastructure but what we will need next is the new generation of ICT applications.

“Victoria already has a fibre optic broadband industry unparalleled in Australia and a rapidly growing fibre to the home network including 18 new estates with over 25,000 new homes being connected to fibre, such as the University Hill, Aurora and Sandhurst estates.”

The Victorian Premier says the state government’s property development agency VicUrban had been installing fibre direct to properties in new housing estates since 2006 as had a number of private developers.

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