Your Search Returned 3 tagged news reports
Telstra was ejected from the tender to build Australia's next generation broadband network last month after failing to lodge a compliant bid. The proposal for a new US broadband network was floated in the latest edition of BusinessWeek as advice for the...
Tags: broadband, fibre optic cable, communications, infrastructure, wireless
National Broadband Network and the mixed economy: What kind of monopoly? Even now it does not seem so long ago that a genuine ‘mixed’ economic model prevailed across nations the world wide. In the wake of Depression and...
Tags: natural monopoly, public broadcasters, broadband, productivity, Wide Area Wireless, wireless, infrastructure, National Broadband Network, fibre optic cable, Telstra, communications, telecommunications, Australia, Labor, ALP, liberalism, mixed economy, Keynes, public monopoly, socialism, social democracy, Left, privatisation, monopoly, Optus, rent-seeking, economics, economies of scale, fibre to the node, fibre to the home, Kevin Rudd, Stephen Conroy neoliberalism
The company is spending $500 million on the project which will give 97 percent of people access to broadband through their mobile phone or by using a data card plugged into their computer. Ernie Newman from the Telecommunications Users Association says...
Tags: telecommunications, broadband, fibre optic cable, communications