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Posted: **Tue Apr 07, 2009 9:45 pm**

THE Federal Government has announced the "largest infrastructure decision in Australia's history" after deciding not to award the national broadband network contract to a company.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said the Government would lead the development of a national fibre-to-the-home broadband network up to "100 times faster than what many people use now".

The ambitious project will take up to eight years, cost $43 billion, create tens of thousands of jobs and will see fibre-optic cable laid out to individual houses.

The fibre-optic network, providing speeds of up to 100 megabits per second, will cover 90 per cent of Australians, while the rest will have access to a mix of wireless and satellite connections.

Yey. Might take a while, but will be well worth it. It would make a mess of my current 200kb/s download speed ;l. Perhaps Australia won't have the slowest internet after all! Though at a cost of $40+ billion, tax payers may have to pay that.

Posted: **Tue Apr 07, 2009 10:26 pm**

Lucky bastards...
Congrats mate.

Posted: **Tue Apr 07, 2009 10:47 pm**

yeah lucky indeed.

Posted: **Tue Apr 07, 2009 11:17 pm**

Unfortunately this will likely never be a gov't project in Canada, mostly because it would cost a hell of a lot more than $43 billion to get it to every home.

Posted: **Tue Apr 07, 2009 11:56 pm**

Damn going from what you guys have now to that, that would be a huge improvement. If only they would loosen up on the caps.

Posted: **Wed Apr 08, 2009 12:11 am**

Australia is not suffering from economic turmoil?

Posted: **Wed Apr 08, 2009 12:14 am**

Consider yourself lucky lols.

Posted: **Wed Apr 08, 2009 12:21 am**

CrimsonNuker wrote:Australia is not suffering from economic turmoil?

Kangaroo oil is finally startnig to pay off..

Posted: **Wed Apr 08, 2009 12:22 am**

Squirt wrote:
CrimsonNuker wrote:Australia is not suffering from economic turmoil?

Kangaroo oil is finally startnig to pay off..

Kangaroo wut?

Posted: **Wed Apr 08, 2009 12:23 am**

hahaha, don't fall for this telstra rubbish, all they are doing is making more areas ADSL2+ capable. ADSL2+ speeds aren't great when you look at what your getting at your house. Top speeds is something like 22mbps which you'd get up to 4mbps at your end tops.

If you read the fine print your purchasing speed in megabits not megabytes from telstra. what you get at your end is in bytes but its the most you can get most of the time. 8 bits = 1 byte.

Prices will stay the same, we will continue to have worse broadband than Mexico.

Posted: **Wed Apr 08, 2009 3:45 am**

CrimsonNuker wrote:Australia is not suffering from economic turmoil?

It isn't too bad here. We've got quite a steady economy and a somewhat smart government. Our government has been praised by Prime Minister of the UK, and President of the United States on how he's held up our economy and so far kept us out of recession.

You also must think. This operation stimulates jobs. Jobs for those who make the cables, those who have to lay it, those who oversee it, those who manage it. etc.

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I don't care about the price, I'd pay more than I already do ($130/mnth) for faster internet.

Posted: **Wed Apr 08, 2009 8:09 am**

CrimsonNuker wrote:Australia is not suffering from economic turmoil?

you spend your way out of turmoils, thats how everyone did it during the depression

Posted: **Wed Apr 08, 2009 8:49 am**

100 megabits per second? God dam i can't wait. Im still on 256k, downloading at a max of 27kbs sucks >_<

And Snoopy is spot on with our economic situation. Unlike a lot of countries we are holding up pretty well. Obviously we aren't as strong as we were during the boom but compared to other countries on a general level we have a strong position. Lowered interest rates and petrol prices have given people the freedom to spend, i found i was struggling more during the boom than i am now. I love this recession, i have a stable job and im spending less and less money. I hope the world never recovers from it, i wont be complaining.

Posted: **Wed Apr 08, 2009 3:39 pm**

well here in morocco they are planning to make faster net to about 50Mega byte its enough for the 7millions internet users in morocco also they each year they up for free our internet speed by 1MB

Posted: **Thu Apr 09, 2009 4:01 am**

GrindingEternaly wrote:Prices will stay the same, we will continue to have worse broadband than Mexico.

I doubt so pretty much.

70USD/month = 1Megabit
250USD/month = 4Megabits

win?

Posted: **Thu Apr 09, 2009 6:27 pm**

LaloHao wrote:
GrindingEternaly wrote:Prices will stay the same, we will continue to have worse broadband than Mexico.

I doubt so pretty much.

70USD/month = 1Megabit
250USD/month = 4Megabits

win?

wtf here we pay 20Megabit for 900dhiram=90USD wth is that country? thats so overpriced wtf

Posted: **Fri Apr 10, 2009 9:55 am**

Snoopy wrote:I don't care about the price, I'd pay more than I already do ($130/mnth) for faster internet.

hmm 130 aus$ *googles* zomfg 70€ for crappy internets?

Why are those prices all so crazy high?

My internets (20mb) + phone is 30€ a month (~40USD)

Posted: **Fri Apr 10, 2009 10:21 am**

Puni wrote:
Snoopy wrote:I don't care about the price, I'd pay more than I already do ($130/mnth) for faster internet.

hmm 130 aus$ *googles* zomfg 70€ for crappy internets?

Why are those prices all so crazy high?

My internets (20mb) + phone is 30€ a month (~40USD)

Price we pay for living on the driest inhabited country in the world I guess.

$130 a month gets me "Ultra High Speed ##" "60gb/month". Yet, when downloading from American servers I struggle to get over 60kbps.

Posted: **Fri Apr 10, 2009 10:35 am**

Snoopy wrote:
Puni wrote:
Snoopy wrote:I don't care about the price, I'd pay more than I already do ($130/mnth) for faster internet.

hmm 130 aus$ *googles* zomfg 70€ for crappy internets?

Why are those prices all so crazy high?

My internets (20mb) + phone is 30€ a month (~40USD)

Price we pay for living on the driest inhabited country in the world I guess.

$130 a month gets me "Ultra High Speed ##" "60gb/month". Yet, when downloading from American servers I struggle to get over 60kbps.

Oh my God!

Zajebana je Australija xD

Posted: **Fri Apr 10, 2009 2:56 pm**

I don't really get it.. Right now you can get fiber optical cable internet if you want to right? It just costs a bit more right?

Because my dad is about to buy optical fiber internet for my house -.-

Posted: **Sat Apr 11, 2009 12:22 pm**

@Twist: lol da.

It's rumored to cost around $200/month.

CONSUMERS have been warned they will have to pay at least $200 a month to use the Federal Government's high-speed broadband network - or pay less for slower speeds.

The Government this week unveiled a plan to build a $43 billion national network promising speeds of 100 megabits a second - 100 times faster than now available

Source: http://www.news.com.au/technology/story ... 39,00.html

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