Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
As rivalry heats up between eastern states hoping to attract the National Broadband Network company headquarters to their capital city, Victorian Premier John Brumby has thrown in a sweetener with the opening of a $50 million broadband institute at Melbourne University.
The decision on where to locate the NBN company expected within weeks,
and Victoria is getting all its ducks in a row – lining up two powerful
research agencies to join with Melbourne Uni, as well as 10
multinational ICT companies to back the new Institute for a Broadband
Enabled Society (IBES).
The university, National ICT Australia (NICTA) and the Melbourne-based
Centre for Ultra Broadband Information Networks (CUBIN) are the
foundation partners of the institute, which director Professor Rod
Tucker says will develop commercial applications to run on the NBN.
“The Institute for a Broadband Enabled Society is a multi-disciplinary
institute across the whole University of Melbourne,” Prof Tucker said.
“The idea is that it brings together researchers from different
backgrounds – from sicences, social sciences, health and education – to
work on new technologies and applications for broadband that will be of
benefit to society.”
Companies including Telstra, Cisco, Microsoft, Ericsson, Optus, Alcatel
Lucent and Bell Labs have all agreed to partipate in the new venture.
While the Premier is calling it a $50 million Institute, the State
government is actually only kicking in $2 million – with the rest
coming from existing funding and through Institute partners.
Professor Tucker said the Institute would create NBN applications in
areas ranging from eHealth, Education and even bushfire monitoring
systems.
“(The NBN) opens up enormous opportunities for new services, new innovations and new applications for broadband in Australia.”
Premier Brumby said the Institute would create at least 64 new jobs for the state.
“This institute is another reason why Victoria is the natural home of
the NBN Corporation along with Victoria’s impressive reputation in
broadband-related research and development,” Brumby said.
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