Australian National Broadband Network Releases 3-Year Plan

New submitter pcritter writes "The Australian Government has just announced the 3-year roll-out plan for its ambitious National Broadband Network. The plan details 3.5 million premises (30%) across the country to be connected to the NBN by mid-2015. A map is available showing coverage areas. The plan represents a major milestone in the NBN project, which aims to connect all of Australia with high speed broadband by 2021, with the 93% of the population on fiber to the premises (FTTP) of speeds up to 1000Mbits, and the rest on fixed wireless or satellite."

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Re:Judgement

[evanism]

you sir must be a government shill, a member of the LABOR party (read Communist Unionism here people from other than Aust) or both.

What you describe is the pure evils of socialism and communism. Enforced government mandates run by guaranteed monopoly PLUS a guaranteed method for the government to spy on every packet that traverses the network.

Do us all a favour and teleport back in time the East Germany Stassi or the worst deprivations of Communist Russia. You would fit right in.

Re:Up to 1Gbps is actually 100Mbps only

[GaryOlson]

If this is how you expect the Internet to built out in Oz, you will never have a useful, effective, dynamic Internet. "Won't the Big US Monopolies please come and build an Internet for us because we can't build our own!" Stop chasing joeys around the Outback and put some effort into creating your own large scale data companies. Slacker