Paul Fletcher’s Broadband Briefing
Five years after Labor announced its broadband policy, Australia’s broadband penetration ranking has dropped and Labor’s policy has made zero difference to the broadband service received by 99.9 per cent of Australians.
What can Australia learn from the UK experience of broadband, and that government’s approach?
To spend tens of billions of dollars to build a telecommunications network – without knowing how much you can charge customers to use the network – is an extremely risky move.
If you are a retail user of fixed broadband services in Australia today, the single most important person in determining the price you pay is David Thodey – the Chief Executive of Telstra.
A claim we hear repeatedly from Stephen Conroy and Labor Parliamentarians is that the Coalition had eighteen failed broadband plans.
Following the release of proposed NBN retail pricing by major internet service provider Internode, the Gillard government has been exposed for overpromising on NBN pricing.
In Australia, it is estimated that around 150,000 new residential dwellings are built annually. What kind of broadband connection is being built in these new dwellings?
One of the arguments we often hear for the NBN is that by rolling out a high bandwidth fibre network to Australian households, the NBN will increase the percentage of households which take a broadband service.