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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780958103321

Autore

Fletcher Paul <1965-2008.>

Titolo

Wired brown land? [[electronic resource] ] : Telstra's battle for broadband / / Paul Fletcher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sydney, : New South Wales University Press, 2009

ISBN

1-74223-181-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Disciplina

621.3820994

Soggetti

Broadband communication systems - Australia

Broadband communication systems - Government policy - Australia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1. A generous offer from Telstra; 2. Creating a monster - and trying to tame it: 1990-2000; 3. Telstra holds back the broadband tide; 4. 2004 to 2006:The game changes; 5. 2007: A broadband backwater?; 6. Broadband 6 gets political; 7. Why our broad band infrastructure matters:What is the prize?; 8. Preparing for the new world; 9. The way forward; Epilogue; Notes; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Describes the commercial and political battle between Telstra and everyone else to control Australia's broadband infrastructure, a struggle that escalates as the Government prepares to spend 43 billion on a new broadband network.