From
http://lithgow.yourguide.com.au/news...k/1198631.html
A group of stakeholders gathered with Telstra Country Wide and the Minister
for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy to express their views
on the transition from the CDMA network to the Next G Network.
Local Government has been a vocal advocate for the deployment of
infrastructure in Regional Australia to facilitate new broadband access.
Given the investments that Telstra has made in bringing the benefit of
coverage and data speeds available on the Next G Network, Lithgow Mayor
Neville Castle, Mayor said this would benefit all regional councils and
provide positive experiences for the ratepayers after moving to the Next G
Network.
ON February 6, Telstra announced it would activate high speed ADSL2+
broadband at more than 900 telephone exchanges across Australia over the
next six months.
These will serve more than 2.4 million consumers.
High Speed ADSL2+ broadband can provide network speeds of up to 20 megabits
per second and ADSL2+ can also provide speeds of 12 to 20 Mbps to users
within 1.5 km of an exchange.
These speeds are up to 350 times faster than a standard dial up connection",
Cr Castle said.
The second announcement was the further expansion of the Next G Network
which now has up to 6400 sites and provides voice and wireless broadband
coverage to 99 per cent of the population.
Telstra has announced a Next G evolution roadmap which will deliver
customers network speeds of up to 21Mbps in a world first and 42Mbps in 2009
using HSPA+ technology.
OPEL has said it will use close to $1 billion of taxpayer money to build
1361 WIMAX sites to take non mobile wireless broadband to around 600,000 sq
km and take ADSL2+ to 312 exchanges.
Telstra believes that the Broadband Connect Infrastructure Program funding
awarded to OPEL us the single largest grant of public money ever to a
corporate body.
Mayor welcomes move to Next G network 
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