Australia's Broadband Drought

Strong mining = strong exports
Strong banking = strong commerce
Strong telecommunications = strong economy, society, connections.

There is a clear relationship between economic growth and investment in technology.

The building and construction industry has the lowest level of technology adoption and the lowest productivity growth. (Note: The new NextG network will help that)

As we've seen with the
Small Businesses are the backbone of the Australian economy but can't afford their own expensive communications infrastructure. They need fast and reliable standard services.

As we've said time and time before - make life easier for small business, don't rip us off and you'll earn our trust and support. Remember for every 1 big business there are about 100,000 small ones!

With small businesses in mind today Phil Burges, from their Telstra.

BANGitUP name! (ye gads!)

Anyway, the guts of the argument comes down to who should determine our (read you and I) telecommunications infrastructure - government or the public and Telstra?

It's a tough one - everyone is a bit sentence (excluding the ABC that is [lot's of clever stuff going on there).

The current "
Guess what - most of the 1.9m small businesses don't live in the city and are stuck with a piffy 1.5mpbs ADSL. We're not happy but have been pointing the finger at the wrong culprit.

At the moment Australia is ranked something like 17telecommunications.

Anyway, let's you and I decide not a group of politicians playing power games. Which pollie said 8mb per second is enough? Let me tell you - a fully rendered 3D building is a bloody big file - add collabortion tools on top of that, VOIP and multipoint conferencing and your 8mb is looking like a string and a couple of cans.

To prosper in the emerging global information economy we'll need 100mps and beyond.

If the corporate price is too expensive then we'll opt out or on charge it to our customers as a cost of business - that's basic economics and market forces.

As we've said time and time again Smart Australia requires bigger, thicker pipes to carry our data that will provide better information services. The more services the greater Telstra.

Let's just get on with it.

The BACK campaign is simply empowering people to tell government to provide a level playing field - it's letting shareholders understand the bigger issues beyond the short term share price.

From a building industry and small business perspective BACk Telstra
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