[MLB-WIRELESS] WiMAX to go Australia wide?

[Tony Langdon, VK3JED]

At 11:05 PM 6/19/2007, Dean Collins wrote:

>Their attitudes to restricting access to copper and exchanges is what's
>holding Australia back.
>
>There are areas in NY that are less populated than where I live in
>Sydney however I can sign up for 8mb cable with no issues at all.
>
>Stick that in your data statistics argument.

I tend to agree with you.  The observations I notice most are that 
(1) Many people in outer suburbs have issues getting access to 
broadband (this has improved in recent years but still a way to go).

(2) Bandwidth costs in Australia, even in the major centres appear to 
be around 10x that of many overseas countries (US, UK, etc).  I came 
to this conclusion after pricing comparable hosting services here and 
overseas.  While in many cases I could find similar monthly charges, 
the included monthly data transfer for Australian based services was 
around 10% of any of the overseas offerings.  This has led to the 
strange situation that I now spend more time administering servers in 
the US than ones located locally, because my clients are hiring where 
it's cost effective.

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