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Telecommunications and broadband

Why are we buying entry level broadband packages from NBN?

Posted on January 20, 2018November 23, 2020

Continuing with my broadband theme, Mitch Fifield, Communications Minister, wrote a comment piece in the Age last Thursday, 18th January “Affordable broadband is the go“. It made little sense to me. The thrust of the article was two fold. First, we must be set prices that allow the NBN to operate as a commercial business. […]

Telecommunications and broadband

Smaller scale broadband is better than a national monopoly

Posted on January 12, 2018November 23, 2020

Motherboard is reporting on a Harvard paper that examines the price of broadband services in the US from the large players (referenced in this article) and provided by the community. Some interesting points emerge: US coverage of the basic broadband service ( 25 Mbps down, 3 Mbps up as defined by the FCC) is limited; prices vary […]

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