If you havn't heard, Kevin Rudd has annouced a nation wide Fibre Optic internet network.
Built from scratch at a wopping 42billion dollars.
Quote" It would deliver broadband speeds of 100 megabits per second to 90% of Australian homes,
schools and businesses within eight years through fibre-optic cables. The other 10% would get a wireless upgrade"
The new speeds are 100 times faster than most Australians get and would be enough to allow multiple, simultaneous,
high-quality downloads of movies or television shows from the same connection.
A handful of countries including South Korea, Japan, France and Germany have comparable speeds, though not on such a large scale.
Installing fibre cables across most of Australia would create 25,000 jobs a year during construction, the government said.
For those who don't know, fibre optic internet provides data transfers at the speed of light and can handle 40gb/s of data on a single line.
This would allow a 700mb movie to download in just 23seconds at 30mb/s (assuming the server your downloading from has fibre optics)
