The Coalition will ensure that Broadband pricing in Wannon will be comparable with Melbourne. We will achieve this by delivering a mixture of fibre optic, wireless and satellite.
MEDIA RELEASE
10 August 2010
WANNON TO BENEFIT FROM AFFORDABLE BROADBAND
The Coalition will ensure that Broadband pricing in Wannon will be comparable with Melbourne. We will achieve this by delivering a mixture of fibre optic, wireless and satellite.
Areas that are under served by broadband, particularly rural and remote areas, will be prioritised to ‘fill’ the gaps as quickly as possible.
The Coalition will deliver nationwide availability of high speed broadband and we will ensure that the 97 percent of premises, wherever they are in Australia, will receive services at prices comparable to those for similar services in metropolitan Australia.
Central to the Coalition plan is a $2.75 billion investment to create a nation wide competitive fibre optic ‘backbone’ by 2017. This will ensure two lanes of ‘backhaul’ fibre each accessible to any telecommunications company to provide multi-technology broadband.
The Coalition will commit up to $1 billion in grant funding for new fixed wireless networks in rural and remote Australia.
Fixed wireless networks are suitable for Wannon as they can be rolled out faster than fixed networks, they have a lower capital cost (which encourages competition) and they perform well to fill the ‘gap’ in areas that are too far away from an exchange to receive DSL services.
Wireless broadband makes economic sense for certain areas of Wannon and will place us at the frontier of current technologies.
We will provide grant funding of $700 million to provide improved satellite delivered broadband services for the remaining three per cent of households.
We will also provide $30 million to support infrastructure for reliable mobile phone coverage, focusing on ‘black spot’ areas such as Navarre, Victoria Valley, the Digby area, Balmoral area and north of Casterton.
Labor’s NBN gives no priority to the people in Wannon who do not get an adequate service today – in fact, Labor’s plan leaves them waiting up to eight years before they see a change.
By 2016 we will achieve a national broadband baseline under which 97 percent of premises will be served by high-speed networks capable of delivering from 100 Mbps down to a minimum of 12 Mbps peak speed.
The Coalition have a financially responsible broadband plan, which will deliver high speed broadband using a mix of technologies, but without exposing taxpayers to billions of dollars of debt for a highly risky commercial venture.
ENDS
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