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Australian Broadband 'In Crisis'

Via Australian IT.

Victorian ICT minister Marsha Thomson has hit out at the Howard Government, saying it continued to focus on selling Telstra while the state's broadband internet infrastructure was left in crisis.

Ms Thomson said that a new report commissioned by the Bracks Government had revealed 163,000 homes and businesses premises across the state still didn't have access to broadband internet services.

The report also found that the number of homes and businesses located in regional areas that wanted broadband but were unable to get it had nearly doubled from 24,000 to 44,000 since 2003.

posted by Fergie @ 2/27/2006 09:36:00 AM