Go real broadband, or suffer

[admin]

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/articles/2007/06/11/1181414243079.html?from=top5

"Australia ranks 42nd in the world in the cost of internet service"

[Chewy]

South Korea was the leading nation in building the infrastructure, Professor Smarr said, followed by Japan, Singapore and Scandinavian countries.

It's dependent upon population density and demand, paying for all that fiber optic cable. Oz's population is too spread out with too few people.

[blutach]

We might have sh1t braodband costs, but we got good looking women!

Regards

[Gary D]

It is one thing to have broadband but when the ISP provider limits your speed based on the "bundle" purchased, then it is not true broadband.

Where I live, you only have 2 choices for the consumer. Cable (TV) or the telephone company. After doing some research, the telephone company allows bigger bandwidth to the consumer than the cable company.

The cable company "steps" on large downloads down by limiting them to 2 KB/sec while the phone company does not. But either company have the same problems from 3 to 5 PM. Too many users because businesses are still open and the school kids are out.

[jm1647]

In my area Verizon is running the fiber optic cable for internet access which should at a minimum double the present bandwidth of our cable company Comcast standard package for broadband of 6MB down and 768K up. Comcast in the past has raised the bandwidth of the standard package for no price increase when Verizon has done this in the past. So things should be getting interesting in my area.

[cynthia]

It's dependent upon population density and demand, paying for all that fiber optic cable. Oz's population is too spread out with too few people.

Perhaps true for Japan and South Korea - but Sweden also have a very large population that lives in sparsely populated areas. But somehow the goverment has decided that its a right to have fast connections even in those areas.

There are also several actors in the market and in the past they burried more cable than there was real need for - so there is an overcapacity in some areas and that has cut the prices to the consumers down to a very attractive level.