Wired Brown Land?: Telstra's Battle for Broadband

By Paul Fletcher

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. Listen to Paul Fletcher preview the recent broadband announcement, on Radio National Breakfast "...Provides a definitive history of what has driven telecommunications and broadband policy - and, so the book argues, its failures." CommsDay "Fletcher provides plenty of insights into the complex telco world, its major players and how they play the policy-making game." Business Spectator "For anyone who has ever wondered why internet speeds are so much faster when they're overseas, why Telstra seems to charge such high prices, why a Foxtel cable doesn't snake past their house, why they have a patchy, sub-standard internet connection - or why Rudd and co. have bet the farm on a $43 billion Rolls-Royce - the answers are provided here." The Canberra Times

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1742230032
• ISBN13: 9781742230030
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Newsouth Pub.
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.4"