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Tasmania mad for next-gen broadband

Posted 15th June 2009 at 12:08pm by Jonathan Leggett

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Tasmania is known to Australians as the Natural State. With a landscape that’s little changed since prehistoric times, it’s an epiphet that’s well deserved. But if anything the area’s feel of age-old dustiness makes it even more surprising that today it has been confirmed as the location of a pilot scheme to test cutting-edge 100Mb fibre optic broadband technology.

Under the national government’s long-term plans to ensure the nation is able to compete economically in the coming decades, the locale will be the very first state to be equipped with a cable broadband network. The roll-out is expected to start in just a few weeks time.

Fibre-optic broadband

Economists estimate that the scheme could bring hundreds of millions of dollars pouring into the area. And better still with the cables all set to be laid underground, they’ll be no telephone masts to despoil the area’s spectacular vistas. Truly, it's a scheme to envy.

In the week that the Digital Britain report is due to arrive, we can only hope our government is taking note.

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