The Australian Government has announced recently that they would be setting up a high speed broad band service to all its customers through National Broadband Network (NBN). Mr. Abbott, the leader of opposition said that, “I do not think a $43 billion broadband network is necessary, it is merely a recreation of the nationalized telecommunication company”

Federal member of Barker, Mr.Secker said that, “This is just another example of the incompetence of this Labour government.” He also quoted that, “Labour went to the last election promising 99 per cent coverage for $4.7 billon, not the 43 billion they are talking about now, We said it wouldn’t work and we were right”

Tony, the spokes man of opposite communication said that, “the Coalition would scrap the NBN and replace it with a different and more responsible scheme.”
But Mr. Secker said that, “We were covering virtually every Australian with our system at a lot more efficient cost and without the philosophical problems that Labour with private enterprise delivering something that can be dome far better than government, We had system in place that was going to work quite well,”

Conroy, the communications minister said that, “Australia has the third most expensive and slowest broadband for small businesses across the whole Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development”.
But Australia’s National Broad Band Network (NBN) would benefit thousands of citizens by providing high speed broadband at affordable rates.

Internode has reached nearly 70 percent of the Australian users through their ADSL2+ services. Cost for broadband has been revised, combo plan a combination of broadband along with telephone costs $49.95 for a month, if the subscriber wants to use a third party line he has to spend $59.95 per month. Subscribers will be offered 128Kbps when the data limit exceeds 50GB.

Through 550 zone 1 Telstra exchanges Internode has expanded its ADSL2+ connection. It offers a good coverage with sub-exchanges and for RIM connected subscribers. Fast plans of Internode have also been revised with a wide choice of price and download limits. ADSL2+/ADSL1 are available throughout the nation. Present customers can remain on their current plans or shift to FAST plan through their online website. The company stated that, ‘Existing Internode Easy Broadband services have been rebranded Internode Easy Broadband Classic, and all new signups to Internode Easy Broadband will be provisioned with the new version of the plan’.

In Australia NBN network is one of the giant in providing broad band services. But Australian government has planned to compete for retail customers with its background of $40 billion broadband network. “The Australian government wants to restrict the super-fast broadband network to wholesale services and keep NBN out of retail”, said NBN network company Chief Executive Mike Quigley. The leading other service providers are watching keenly the steps taken by  Australian Government against NBN network.

Quigley also added that, “Any move to authorize the network to connect customers other than an Internet service provider would also be subject to a vote in parliament for approval”.

Telstra and SingTel has commented that NBN Co could go beyond its original remit to provide wholesale services on equivalent terms to all retail service companies. The key promise that led to the victory made by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd was to provide faster networks. Australian government has also put laws before Parliament forcing Telstra to split its retail its retail and cable network arms, and to provide super-fast fibre-optic cable into almost every home using its cable assets. Telstra is previously a state owned company and is currently involved in converting the traditional copper cable to fiber optic cable as a part of the government’s effort to speed up Broad Band.
As a result last week Telstra share jumped from A$3.10 to A$3.19 within half an hour. But later it was denied because Telstra has planned to sell its copper network for A$9.75 billion.

Let’s wait and see the result of Australian Government’s effort to increase the broad band speed and connectivity.