Matthew Holden Six Point Broadband Plan for Australia - tell your politician now
Australia falls behind in the internet broadband access. Here is an email to Labour and Kevin Rudd.
—–Original Message—–
From: Matthew Holden [mailto:matthew - matthewholden.com.au]
Sent: Tuesday, 23 October 2007 9:50 PM
To: Rudd, Kevin (MP)
Subject: Six Point Broadband Plan for Australia - tell your politician now
Dear Friends,
I’ve been watching the Australian election from afar and want to share some ideas with you. I personally believe that broadband connection in Australia is a limiting factor in the economic growth and educational enablement of the country.
One of the reasons that Australia has a “monthly capping” of services from carriers is so that people do not use broadband more and create further load on an underdeveloped system!
ALL of you should take note and get both parties to recognise and action a national broadband rollout. Many people lay blame at Telstra and claim that they should undertake this rollout. However, due to the population size and the wide geographic expanse of Australia, organisations such as Telstra, Optus and others cannot undertake such a program as the payback (ROI) will not be achievable for many years
Matthew Holden’s Broadband plan consists of:
1. Federal Government - using funds from the future fund - creates, builds and maintains a national fibre optic network and lays undersea fibre cable for increased capacity to the United States and Asia under a new corporation name of “Broadband Australia Corporation” or BAC.
2. BAC is responsible for rollout to many local points - or nodes as they are called - a high speed connection. From these nodes additional local companies can lease services and on-sell to local consumers, businesses and the like.
3. Major carriers such as Telstra, Optus, Singtel etc lease capacity from the BAC, much like how the electricity grid now works.
4. Carriers with their own fibre networks can sell their capacity into the grid (remember when Optus mass laid all that fibre in Sydney in the 1990’s? - and cut down all those trees to do so?)
5. Australian companies with sizeable capacity needs can, like carriers, buy capacity direct from BAC.
6. Underprivileged, students and people on lower socio economic means can be granted access to BAC services
Broadband is essential to progress in Australia. In Singapore our home has six computers all with broadband download capacity of 30mbps, this is only achievable because Singapore is only one quarter the geographic size of Sydney. The most wired nation on the planet is South Korea and Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong and even Vietnam all have aggressive and highly enabled broadband programs.
Whilst most nations continue to improve in its broadband capacity and interconnectivity, Australia is declining in capacity!
Forward this email on and tell your local politician you care and want better broadband connectivity.
Regards
Matthew Holden
Singapore / Killara