[AusNOG] Telstra flicks switch on high speed broadband network

[Bruce Forster]

Howdy, i just stumbled accross this little read... intresting.

http://www.itwire.com/content/view/16489/1095/



Regards,

Bruce

On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Paul Brooks wrote:

> Posted on SMH half an hour ago:
>
> http://business.smh.com.au/telstra-flicks-switch-on-high-speed-broadband-network/20080206-1qia.html
>
> Telstra and the Federal Government have today overcome a 14-month
> impasse over its higher-speed broadband network after the company gained
> regulatory certainty, in an agreement which will provide up to 2.4
> million homes and businesses with faster broadband speeds.
>
> In a major breakthrough ahead of talks over plans for an $8 billion
> national fibre-optic network, the Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, and
> Telstra's chief executive, Sol Trujillo, announced the switch-on of the
> company's entire ADSL2+ fixed-line network in Canberra this morning.
>
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