http://paulbudde.com/blog/nbn-ftth-broadband/importance-high-speed-broadband-regional-australia/
All of this requires not just high speed; even more importantly it
needs infrastructure that delivers resilience, robustness, low
latency, security and so on. One of the key problems ahead is that
the broadband network in regional Australia will be second-rate
compared with the services that will become available in the future in
metro-Australia, and yet arguably rural Australia depends even more
heavily on high quality broadband services, since they are often
further away from healthcare, education and business facilities.
I've often said that the value of telecommunications is inversely
proportional to population density.
... significantly larger parts of regional Australian will need to be
linked to fibre networks.
Like most commentators, Paul omits the timeframe. The anticipated
service life of optical fibre is a century or more. If we commit to that
timeframe, what can we achieve (our government's artificial 2020
deadline notwithstanding)?
As quality high-speed broadband will remain elusive for many people in
regional and rural Australia the region will become more and more
reliant on mobile broadband services. In that respect 5G will be a
real boost for those users; but in reality it will take roughly a
decade before these services become commercially available throughout
the whole of regional Australia.
It seems unlikely that 5G will ever be much chop outside
densely-populated areas. Even at te lower frequencies advocated by the
likes of Telstra, it just doesn' perform over distances and around
obstructions. Does any Linker know the true potential?
Poor quality broadband access, therefore, will remain something that
will hamper economic and social development in regional Australia for
many years to come.
--
David Boxall | Australia's problem isn't fake news,
| it's fake government.
http://david.boxall.id.au | --Ross Gittins
Sydney Morning Herald 27 March 2017
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