The NBN: why it’s slow, expensive and obsolete
Two years on from the Coalition’s promise of a national broadband network that would be faster, cheaper and delivered sooner than Labor’s plans, what have we got?
Two years on from the Coalition’s promise of a national broadband network that would be faster, cheaper and delivered sooner than Labor’s plans, what have we got?
Was Christopher Pyne right to say that “there has not been a delay of the NBN”?
Five academic experts recently gave their views to the Senate Select Committee on the NBN. Here’s what they had to say.
How fast is the NBN in its current form? Is it really that much faster than ADSL? And, crucially, how long will it take to download an episode of Parks and Recreation? You’ll find the answers here.
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Rod Tucker is a Laureate Emeritus Professor at the University of Melbourne, in the University of Melbourne’s Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Rod’s research focuses on telecommunications…