Australian National Broadband Network Releases 3-Year Plan

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday March 29, 2012 @09:31PM from the internet-to-the-people dept.

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:And it's mostly areas that have decent ADSL cov by Nursie · 2012-03-29 23:57 · Score: 5, Insightful

No, it doesn't.
Most of the country has slow, horrifically overpriced ADSL, which is patchy even in some urban areas. The Telcos were not and are not doing anything about it. The government stepping in is exactly what was needed.