Australia - National Broadband Plan - Document Details

In early 2007 the Labor Party proposed its National Broadband Network. Under the proposal, a rollout of a new Fibre-to-the-Node network would deliver high-speed broadband at 40 times faster than current speeds to 98% of Australians. The remaining 2% of Australian’s in regional and rural areas not covered by the FttN network would have improved broadband services through wireless and satellite. The key part of the proposal is to roll out a nationwide backbone network that would be able to services local access networks. In this report we: discuss the plan; analyse the developments; and provide ongoing updates on these developments.

1. Synopsis
2. Analysis of the Governments NBN RFP (separate report)
3. Government’s national broadband plan
- 3.1 A Broadband Future for Australia
- 3.2 Recent developments
  - 3.2.1 Opposition calls Senate Select Committe to examine NBN
  - 3.2.2 TransACT to launch its own NBN, Macquarie bank joins Telstra
4. Initial comments on the plan
5. The Minister preparing to shake up the industry
- 5.1 Conroy is committed
- 5.2 No results without a very big stick
- 5.3 Build on success of LLU
- 5.4 Don’t celebrate yet
- 5.5 Industry cooperation
  - 5.5.1 Pre-election preparations
  - 5.5.2 Industry suggestions for the NBN
- 5.6 Communications Alliance
6. Open Access is imperative
7. Australia – FttH SIG (separate report)
8. FttX Plans from Telstra and G9 (separate Report)
9. Related reports