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Everything points to the new global economic challenges will be based on a technological infrastructure in the cloud. Hence, expanding broadband coverage is a goal to be asked strategists economic policies of different countries to avoid the abyss.
The gamble has already started for Australia, a country that is geographically far from everything, but is forced to bridge the gap globally. What would not you with a wireless Internet connection of 12 megabits per second in your home? For the bandwidth, even far away to Venezuelans, is the least that Australian households will receive (10%), since 90% of Australian households have a super fast 100 Mbps via optical fiber.

It all started the program of government proposed by the current Prime Minister of Australia, Kevin Rudd, when he was running in 2007, compliance will promise to bring fiber to 90% of the country. The project is executed in 2009 by the state, with a 49% of the private sector, generate 37,000 jobs over a period of eight years.

The decision is not capricious, Minister Rudd puts his country’s commitment to advancing knowledge economy rapidly towards cloud computing. His goal is to increase the quality and coverage of broadband at affordable prices.

The Australian model for competitive value-added services is managed under concession schemes tendered the fiber optic network, with regulated tariffs or defined in the bidding process.