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Old 02-23-2011, 02:23 PM   #13 (permalink)
spindles
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The Australian government have started a company whose job is to roll fibre out to 93% of households, with the remaining 7% covered by either wireless of satellite:

Coverage - NBN Co Limited

The estimated cost will be 26 billion dollars, but I think it is money well spent. If you leave it to private enterprise, you get duplication in the areas with high population and nothing to the sparsely populated areas - it just isn't good enough.

Wireless will never (or at least not for a long time) be able to reach the speeds achieved by a wired connection.
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