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100 Megabit Broadband for Australia
Posted on 07. Apr, 2009 by Philip in Big Trousers News, Web design
Prime Minister Rudd today announced a 43 Billion Dollar investment in a new broadband network for Australia. Due to economic conditions and the lack of private sector involvement, the Australian government is to become the major shareholder in a new company charged with the job of building a new broadband infrastructure.
This is great news for small business as most struggle with outmoded, expensive and unreliable internet connection in the current forms widely available. As businesses move to provide online services and conect with customers and suppliers through these services as a way of streamlining their business practice a reliable connection at high speed is becoming essential. Content managed web sites alone cause small business in rural areas extreme problems.
Also with private homes also benefiting from increased access to high speed broadband, the ability for business to allow customer access to media, services and general web content will be greatly improved.
Business will also find more capacity to allow employees to work from locations remote to the central office arrangement thus giving greater work flexibility. An improved environmental outcome is also a possible upside to high speed access.
Unlike the Opposition leader who thinks data connection is about wireless laptops accessing the internet, I believe data via optic fibre to houses and businesses is the way of the future. As devices in the home become data connected a local wireless network connected to a fibre modem will make more sense. Stationary devices like display screens for film and television, bedside radios with internet radio, weather, and daylight savings time server services are all do-able. Imaging your washing machine connecting to a service agent to ask for repairs, on it’s own. What if your car could “talk” to service computers online everytime it was parked in tha garage? The internet is about to become means of communication for all our technology and a hardwired network is the place to start that revolution.