The Australian government has ditched its plan to fund a privately built fiber-to-the-node broadband network. Instead, it will directly build an open-access, 100Mbps+, fiber-to-the-home network that will reach 90 percent of Australian homes within eight years.
Bristol – indeed the whole UK – should do the same. Open-access fibre networks were very much the subject of the NextGen event at Watershed last week.
Extremely fast networks (using fibre) are core social and economic infrastructure. There’s no prize for being last to this.
Found via Ars Technica: Aussies to build own open-access fiber backbone
