REGIONAL Queenslanders will be able to access cheaper, more efficient internet under State Government plans for a broadband rival to the problem-plagued NBN.
The Government will look at making available space capacity on optical fibre networks used by state-owned corporations such as Energy Queensland to boost connectivity for thousands of families.
The publicly-owned network stretches more than 4000km up the coast – through cities such as Maryborough, Bundaberg, Gladstone, Rockhampton, Mackay, Townsville and Cairns.
It reaches as far north as the resort town of Port Douglas and inland to Toowoomba, Roma, Charters Towers, Cloncurry and Mount Isa.
The plan was an election campaign promise that went under the radar.
http://www.couriermail.com.au/technology/nbn-rollout-queensland-plans-rival-broadband-network/news-story/?nk=853f938dfa999fbe82de66354ce3e0f3-1513502165
With the MTM not much more than a joke this initiative, perhaps copied/adapted from the SA govt gigabit network, this should boost employment, high wage employment! For example, a lot of primary producers and factories processing primary product will now be able to get market information and track their product past farm or factory gate. Don’t think so? I read the Hansard of the early meetings of the Economics Committee of the NBN and tracking produce was the main desire from rural areas.
