Over the weekend, a new undersea fibre-optic data link from Guam to Sydney was fired up, which will increase Australia’s international data capacity by almost 50%. Not that anyone seems to care.
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Broadband projects an embarrassing, expensive failure
Perhaps John Howard is right – State Governments are stupid. When NSW Premier Morris Iemma announced its ambitious program to blanket Sydney with WiFi coverage, providing it for free to consumers, he explicitly referred to a San Franciscan project as one to emulate.
