Asia
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
Huawei gives its strategy a strong ICT spin
Huawei’s Shenzhen-based annual global analyst summit had a particularly strong telecoms/IT convergence flavour to it this year. President of corporate strategy Will Zhang went so far as to claim in his keynote that whoever does the best job of integrating telecoms and IT architecture changes into its products over the next ten years will end… Read more
