Australia's Bid to Become the Most Wired Country

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By Stuart Whitmore / Sydney

With the cities of Sydney and Melbourne constantly jostling for international attention, you'd hardly expect to find Australia's less-metropolitan burg of Brisbane carrying the mantle of the country's most digitally advanced city. Yet new residents in Fernbrooke, a 1,000-home Brisbane suburb, are pacesetters for the rest of the country, enjoying Internet download speeds up to 100 megabits per second — around 100 times the speed currently available to the average Australian.

As Fernbrooke goes, so goes the nation. In April, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced a $31 billion plan to build a National Broadband Network (NBN) that will bring fast fiber-optic connections into 90% of the nation's homes, even to towns with as few as 1,000 residents. In doing so, Australia may leapfrog South Korea, which is widely acknowledged as the world's most wired country but where just 44% of residences currently have fiber connections. Less than 5% of U.S. households are wired with fiber-optic cables.

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Australia's Bid to Become the Most Wired Country

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