The News Review:
- Tasmania to get govt broadband first
- Tasmania to get first bite
- UK firm among likely Tas TTE bidders
- Tasmania to get first bite of the NBN apple
- Tasmania Book Prize
Tasmania to get govt broadband first
Sydney Morning Herald
We use an id here to be able to jump to this section. –> Tasmania to get govt broadband first. –> April 8 2009 – 12:19PM Tasmania will be the first state in Australia to get the federal government’s planned national broadband network. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Premier David Bartlett detailed the Tasmanian plan to deliver broadband speeds up to 100 times faster than currently available at joint news conference in Devonport on Wednesday. They announced that Tasmania will be the launch state for the $43 billion National Broadband Network (NBN). The Tasmanian government and Aurora Energy will construct the network. If the plan passes the senate the Tasmanian network will begin rolling out as early as July 2009 before a full national roll-out in early 2010.
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Tasmania to get first bite
The Australian
ad –> Font Size:DecreaseIncreasePrint Page:Print. article-tools –> Matthew Denholm| April 08 2009. module-subheader –> THE nation’s long-suffering poor cousin in internet speed and coverage Tasmania is celebrating the sudden dawn of a “new IT era”. The island state which has long complained of poor internet speeds and being neglected by Telstra will be the first beneficiary of Kevin Rudd’s $43 billion broadband network. The national roll-out of super-speed fibre-to-the-home broadband will occur in Tasmania first in a coup for the Bartlett Government. While city-based businesses and IT lobbyists were ecstatic yesterday there was anger in rural areas with the news that firms and residents of 68 small towns in the state would miss out. Under the network’s fine print only towns with populations of more than 1000 can be guaranteed access to FTTH which brings internet speeds of up to 100 megabits a second.
UK firm among likely Tas TTE bidders
The Age
We use an id here to be able to jump to this section. –> UK firm among likely Tas TTE bidders. –> April 8 2009 – 2:34PM The proposed privatisation of Tasmania’s state-owned betting agency is expected to attract domestic and international gambling operators. The Tasmanian government has tabled legislation in the state parliament for the sale of TTE Tasmania which conducts parimutuel (totalisator) wagering in the island state. Parimutuel wagering is where all bets from a number of customers from one or more betting agencies are pooled. TTE Tasmania has an annual turnover of $750 million – growing at 50 per cent a year. Annual earnings before interest tax depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) are around $30 million.
Tasmania to get first bite of the NBN apple
iTWire
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Tasmania Book Prize
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The $25000 award went to James Boyce for Van Diemen’s. The full text of this item is exclusively available to WBN subscribers.