Some good news about Au internet access.
The Federal Government and private sector will invest up to $43 billion over eight years in a super-fast national broadband network, in the ‘’single biggest infrastructure decision in Australia’s history”.
Whilst looking for stats on broadband I went to the OECD Broadband Portal and spent an hour getting depressed by reading the various reports, snippets like this aren’t good reading if you live in Australia!;
Prevalence of explicit bit/data caps among surveyed offers, by country.
Australia was one of four countries with 0% of plans with ‘No explicit bit cap’, the USA was one of 10 countries with 100% of plans with no explicit bit cap.
(OECD Broadband Statistics, October 2007.)
Average broadband monthly price per advertised Mbits/s in USD.
Australia was $21.34 compared to the USA at $12.60, in a range from $3.09(Japan) to $97.43(Turkey).
(OECD Broadband Statistics, October 2007.)
This is cool for those Aussies looking for something new in net connetivity, Naked DSL from iiNet.
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