While the current government has committed to a WiMax rollout for the bush, Labor communication spokesperson Stephen Conroy has suggested that providing these rural areas with wireless Broadband is a mistake and added that a fibre-to-the-node network would be much more faster and suitable. He goes on to say that the WiMax speeds will fall way short of the mark in which the government has advertised, and that a Broadband FTTN network will have minimum speeds that are 40 times faster than todays average.
Senator Conroy, writing today in The Australian, said that the government’s choice of fixed WiMax to supply broadband to bush users was a mistake, adding the technology will not provide the speeds the government has advertised — 20 to 40 times faster than those rural residents currently receive.
That is why Labor has proposed a national broadband plan that extends the superior technology, fibre-to-the-node, into rural and regional areas, to offer not just city comparable pricing but parity of service. The fibre-to-the-node service will deliver to 98 percent of Australians guaranteed minimum connection speeds that are 40 times faster than today’s average.
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Why can’t the govenrment just approve the extra funding to give all Australians the best possible Broadband Technology available.
Why can’t they see that the investment will return future economic (business) growth, improvement in education, communication and entertainment for for all Aussies regardless of where they live.
A FTTN Network in regional Australia will also open up business to those environments, therefore alleviate the burden of city living and commuting for those chosing to move and work in provincial areas.