The Future of Broadband — in Tasmania – New York Times
By Steve Lohr – August 4, 2010
By 2013, Tasmania plans to have the hyper-speed broadband available to nearly all its 500,000 citizens — and the government is installing it without charging the users. The plan is for the rollout to be completed throughout Australia five to seven years.
Larry Smarr, a director of California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, calls the Australian policy “one of the most interesting experiments in the world.”