On 13 December 2011 the Australian Communications Minister Stephen Conroy gave a speech to the National Press Club, making the case for the NBN, Australia’s government owned high-speed broadband network. This note reviews some of his claims.
Download the report here.
Following on from our work for the UK's Broadband Stakeholder Group looking at future demand for bandwidth, we were commissioned by Australia's Department of Communications to undertake a similar forecast for that country.
Our work was a critical input to the a wider, ground-breaking cost-benefit analysis of the different options for Australia's National Broadband Network.
In this paper for BT, Robert Kenny argues for a targeted approach to the deployment of FTTP in the UK. While FTTP undoubtedly has a role to play - on greenfield sites, for example - there is scant evidence that a 'blunt' deployment of FTTP across the UK will be worthwhile, particularly given the lower cost and rapidly developing capabilities of other technologies.
Over a number of years, Communications Chambers has prepared data sets of fixed and mobile broadband pricing around the world. (The most recent iteration is available here).
In this paper, we analyse the data we collected, looking at a range of issues including:
Google have published our analysis on international fixed and mobile broadband prices.
The dataset (the fourth iteration we have prepared for Google) includes over 5,000 fixed and mobile broadband tariffs, from over 100 countries.
You can access the datasets here.
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