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Informationen zum Autor Paul Fletcher is the former director of regulatory and corporate affairs at Optus! an Australian broadband company! and now runs his own Sydney-based consultancy. Before joining Optus he was chief of staff to the Minister for Communications! Information Technology and the Arts! Senator Richard Alston. He has previously worked as a lawyer and a corporate strategist. Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung A narrative of the twists and turns in a struggle for the control of a multi-billion dollar industry. It 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 $4.7 billion on a new broadband network.
