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The Insider has been intrigued of late by the arguments and counter-arguments being bandied about regarding the virtues of fiber broadband network rollouts, especially the national variety. It appears that fiber is still the only commercially viable medium that has the ability to deliver the ever-increasing data requirements of internet and cloud usage in the foreseeable future. The European Union’s Digital Agenda commissioner, Neelie Kroes, believes so, and is doing all she can to ‘encourage’... -
It seems that the telecommunications labor market is always in a state of flux – either too many people and not enough jobs or too many jobs and not enough people. If we had employment surveys centered on the telecoms sector, similar to those that economists use to determine national employment rates, it would be interesting to see what the optimum situation would be and how the industry is fairing. Commsday reports that in Australia, “diverse sectors of the telco industry are rallying... -
My learned colleague from TelecomAsia, John Tanner, recently wrote about the growth of copper theft in the USA. Things must be bad there if crooks have resorted to pinching copper wires from fixed-line infrastructure as well as electrical substations, railroads, etc. and selling them as scrap. One would hope they don’t get their wires crossed. The situation has become so bad in the US city of Atlanta that AT&T is reportedly offering a $3,000 reward for information leading to the arrest... -
It's been anything but smooth sailing for Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN) but like the great ocean liners of years gone by, the A$43 billion behemoth keeps steaming forward through all weathers. It has managed to survive vigorous opposition from existing network operators and political attempts to steer it off course and was almost sunk by a recent election where it played a pivotal role in garnering the support of independents that floated the government through. Now it is attracting... -
So, you’ve heard me bleating about governments interfering with the telecommunications industry once too often, right? Well, in what may a world first, that very same industry may be instrumental in bringing down a government! You will be forgiven for perhaps not knowing that Australia recently held a national election and that the result, almost two weeks later, is still unknown. The election resulted in a ‘hung’ parliament with neither the ruling Labor Party, headed by Australia’s first female... -
Newspaper headlines in Australia proclaimed today that Telstra had signed a deal with NBN Co to transfer customers from its copper network onto the National Broadband Network's fibre network and share Telstra's infrastructure. Not surprisingly, a press release from Telstra was a little more muted stating it had signed a non-binding Financial Heads of Agreement to participate in the rollout of the National Broadband Network (NBN). The government had been seeking a commercial arrangement with... -
Any country wanting to embark on a National Broadband Network (NBN) project would be well advised to take a close look at the Australian experience - and learn from it. Even though the story is not complete the book should be a best-seller. Governments have traditionally had to front the large capital projects to build roads, railways, dams, power stations, pipelines and power grids and in the past they did the same for telecommunications networks. It has become quite a trend over the last forty... -
Forget the ‘last mile’ disputes of the past, consumers in AsiaPac can’t even get the last hundred metres. We are seeing the beginning of a new disorder which I will affectionately dub, the ‘NBN Syndrome’. You will know when you are the victim of NBN Syndrome when your CSP tells you it is no longer laying copper wire or any other wire for that matter, to your new home or apartment, because it’s uneconomical or they prefer someone else to foot the bill, presumably the national broadband network builder... -
Imagine sitting in a rural health clinic, streaming three-dimensional medical imaging over the web and discussing a unique condition with a specialist in New York. Or downloading a high-definition, full-length feature film in less than five minutes. Or collaborating with classmates around the world while watching live 3-D video of a university lecture. Sounds like an advertisement for a fibre-based ISP, NBN or existing infrastructure operator, doesn’t it? Well, if that’s what you thought, you’d be...
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