Wired brown land? : Telstra's battle for broadband / Paul Fletcher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fletcher, Paul, 1965-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Broadband communication systems--Australia.

Broadband communication systems.

Broadband communication systems--Government policy--Australia.

Telstra (Firm).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sydney : New South Wales University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Describes the commercial and political battle between Telstra and everyone else to control Australia's broadband infrastructure, a struggle that escalates as the Government prepares to spend 43 billion on a new broadband network.

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1. A generous offer from Telstra; 2. Creating a monster - and trying to tame it: 1990-2000; 3. Telstra holds back the broadband tide; 4. 2004 to 2006:The game changes; 5. 2007: A broadband backwater?; 6. Broadband 6 gets political; 7. Why our broad band infrastructure matters:What is the prize?; 8. Preparing for the new world; 9. The way forward; Epilogue; Notes; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-74223-181-0

OCLC:

635291453