OK I know Australia is a long ways away – but this article (Internet economy ‘needs open networks’) from Australia caught my eye today. Apparently Buddecomm, which touts itself as the “world’s largest telecommunications research site, just released a report that “warns that large telecommunication companies must be made to let go of their traditional business models if the rollout of new next generation networks (NGNs) is to be successful.”
Sometimes I think it’s easier to look clearly at someone else’s problem/situation. This article states pretty point blank that Australia needs an Open Network to get and sustain the technology they need and that the telecommunications monopolies aren’t going to buy in without government intervention.
The article suggests that Australia look at Optus Elders’ (OPEL) Network as a model. OPEL is a joint venture between Optus and Elders. They secured $958 million in funding from the Australian Government to deliver affordable broadband services to rural and regional Australians at metro comparable prices.
OPEL will create a competitive wholesale market that will reform the regional telecommunications market enabling retail competition to flourish, empowering consumers and businesses to choose broadband services that suit their particular needs.
It looks as if they just secured funding in June (2007) and the goal is to have the network built by 30 June 2009.
OPEL has a “comments from Industry page” that I think is fun to peruse.
I’ll have to keep my eye on Australia. Actually my husband’s brother lives there and we will be seeing him in about a month so I’ll ask him about access to broadband.
This is a nice piece ,one of the firms i deal with for equipment is one of the leading groups supplying aust equipment .Since the standard has become available to them they will be able to place this at much faster rates and without the cost .Another couple of countries you need keep a close eye on is vietnam as well as india ,each of these countries will use wimax technology to supply services .And china is on the board for this also but that country is at times hard to get info on there uses.
Oh i forgot to add that within 3 to 5 years more people will be using wireless technolgy than any other.
It is amazing to see what is being done in different places. So much of it seems to rely on the power of the incumbents and the incumbents’ openness to well – openness.
we are to much of a lay back group ,we have allowed those groups to run our lives for years now
Ha! I was just going to ask you if you saw this story. I would love to read that report.
It would be fun to see the report. I thought I might be able to find some good statistics from the report in various periodicals but I can’t log into any of my good library databases from here.
Maybe if someone gets this and plans to attend the Blandin Broadband conference in November they can bring it for us. 🙂
Ann
here ann is an article from the sydney news
http://www.smh.com.au/news/business/seven-launches-unwired-bid/2007/09/27/1190486447930.html
I imagine that WIMAX would be especially valuable in certain parts of Australia, which I envision might make some parts of rural Minnesota look like downtown areas. It looks like this Severn Network has the capitol to make that kind of investment. And as you’ve pointed out the investment is more affordable for wireless.
Severn is a huge player in the game .After being at wimax world and seeing all the major communications firms there a mobile world is closer than ever.
http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/techtracks/
Thanks for the reminder on WIMAX World. I hope to get some time over the weekend or maybe Monday to check out the notes from the keynotes and others. You’ll have to send me a heads up on who to check out.
You would have loved the event as a techie .I think no matter who was it opened lots of eyes.Lots of politicians where there and they where very much intrigued.I will forward you the info on some so you can read on the goings on .
http://www.smh.com.au/news/business/optus-a-rival-for-sevens-bid-for-wireless-provider/2007/09/28/1190486567130.html
a rival also bidding for the wireless .so now we are seeing stiff competition for that coming into the hilite reels
http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/computing/2007/0709281305.asp?A=COM&S=Computing&T=News&O=ST
here comes the devices
faa also getting wimax
http://www.telegeography.com/cu/article.php?article_id=19830&email=html
http://www.dailywireless.org/2007/09/28/google-we-got-trouble-in-700-mhz/
as u will notice in this that they no longer look as muni wifi its now changed to muni wirless
http://www.dailywireless.org/2007/09/28/singapore-unwires-port/
The charts on the DailyWireless article are great!
http://www.dailywireless.org/2007/09/28/google-we-got-trouble-in-700-mhz/