JohnRawls wrote:Seriously? Is australia an industrilized nation, what is the standard internet ? I can already get up to 100mb anywhere in estonia using cable.
What does your bandwidth have to do with industrialisation of your country?
Anyway, here in NZ a fibre-optic network is currently rolled out with expected completion date in 2019 when about 75% of end users will be able to get 100 Mb/s. I think about 20% of the total network is already built.
Most people in NZ can get about 20 Mb/s at the moment. Personally, I have never needed more bandwidth.
Since Australia and NZ are relatively sparsely populated, especially compared to most of Europe, there are large rural areas for which coverage is just very expensive. Much of these areas in NZ (i.e. the remaining 25% of end users) won't necessarily be directly connected via fibre but some will probably at least benefit from fibre backbones. There is the rural broadband initiative currently running in parallel to the fibre rollout which will provide "normal" broadband bandwidth (20+ Mb/s) to rural areas.
JohnRawls wrote:To be honest in my opinion 4g is the future, atleast for local use. It can provide 100mb peak speads but Tony was obviously lieing through his teath, considering its a very new technology that becake commercially available i am not sure if it can cost less than fibre optical plan which is WAY, WAY more simpler.
Not sure what Abbot said, but as far as I know while the NBN (which had an expected completion date in 2021 with currently 10% completed) will be discontinued the new government is planning on rolling out a fibre backbone, but it won't replace the copper lines from the nodes to the end users. That alone will obviously improve bandwidth capabilities, but not by as much. Additionally, a lot can happen in the 8 years until 2021 and mobile broadband (4g) may replace at least part of wired broadband.
Personally, I'm not sure whether it's really necessary to connect the vast majority of end users, especially residential areas, with fibre. Of course, it's nice to have it available, but who actually needs it right now or in the next 10 years? And what's the downside of upgrading the node-to-end user lines later if it really becomes necessary?
foxdemon wrote:Not really. Nor is NZ. These two are at best provincal Anglo ex-colonies. Canada is a bit more industrialised. I think that there exists in the world a few countries that have done a remarkably good job at selling an image of themselves as advanced techo powerhouses when they are, in fact, backwaters. Possibly Australia could do a lot better if the establishment was not so inclined to rule in a lazy manner.
What criteria are you using to decide if a country is industrialised?