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As part of its announcement of its three-year rollout plan for the National Broadband Network, NBN Co has updated its service showing when NBN construction will commence. Type your address or city into the map and you’ll get a rough indicator of when work will commence.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard, broadband minister Senator Stephen Conroy and NBN Co CEO Mike Quigley this morning launched the three-year rollout plan for the National Broadband Network. Here’s the full blow-by-blow live report.
NBN Co’s announced that the long-awaited three year rollout plan will be revealed this Thursday, just narrowly making its own self-imposed deadline of “before the end of March”.
NBN Co’s announced that it’s signed up Leighton Holdings subsidiary Visionstream to a $300 million contract that’ll see the NBN completed on the Apple Isle by 2015.
The NBN is a quite sensitive critter, politically speaking, but to date that’s been something that’s politically sensitive within Australia. Reports indicate that Huawei may be blocked from bidding on NBN contracts due to concerns over its ties to China. That’s a whole different level of politics at play.
The 4G picture in Australia is a bit on the challenging side at the moment, with only a handful of 4G devices and a generally used spectrum that’s not used much overseas. Telstra’s said to be investigating another move that could muddy the picture even further, by using some of its 900Mhz spectrum for LTE services.
US Research suggests that the percentage of Australia’s GDP represented by online business is comparatively quite tiny at only 3.3 per cent. Then again, that’s some $44 billion dollars, which puts forward some very challenging perspectives.
Telstra’s latest marketing push is all about the “connected home”, but it’s essentially to do with ISP differentiation in the NBN age.
It was a relatively quiet week on the NBN front, save for one story that caught my attention. A story ran in The Australian early this week, stating boldly that a school in South Australia was facing a bill of $200,000 to secure an NBN connection. It was a heck of a headline — but as it turns out, it wasn’t the case at all.
In recognition of higher data speeds and caps, Google’s upped the limit on apps to a whopping 4GB, although not quite all at once; you’ll be able to download them as a starter 50MB app and then via 2GB expansion files.
