Author: Tony Brown
Bleak budgetary outlook will show how much Australian government values the NBN
With a budget deficit of $19 billion now announced – and forecast budget revenues slumping by tens of billions of dollars – Australia’s politicians have some tough spending decisions to make – not least over the funding of the controversial $37.4 billion National Broadband Network (NBN). The real question now is whether politicians – Labor… Read more
‘Salami effect’ can fill FTTH pipes, but operators might not reap rewards
It is one of the standard questions that Asia Pacific ultrafast broadband operators get asked: What on earth are you going to do with the huge bandwidth on these 1Gbps FTTH services? In the past few weeks, as I’ve attended Broadband World Forum Asia in Hong Kong and then traveled around the region talking to… Read more
Press release: Google and Netflix et al reconfigure the Internet in bid for global content-market dominance
Google, Amazon, Netflix, Microsoft prepare ground for global ambitions The Internet content delivery market will undergo huge changes over the next decade as major telcos and Internet giants, including Google, Amazon, Netflix and Microsoft, wrangle over the continuing over-the-top (OTT) Internet traffic content boom, according to a new Informa Telecoms & Media report Internet Innovation.… Read more
