Broadband on the World Stage: Australia

Broadband on the World Stage: Australia

This IDC Market Perspective discusses the evolution of Australia's telecommunications industry to deliver a national broadband network, in comparison to New Zealand's journey to ultrafast broadband (UFB). "Australia and New Zealand both have similar national broadband goals around ubiquitous connectivity, improving the digital economy and reducing the digital divide," says Monica Collier, research manager, "but each has taken quite different approaches to achieve the goal, with different successes and learnings. With high speed mobile offerings looming, the future of the government-sponsored broadband networks is unclear."