The Tragedy of Australia?s National Broadband Network

Australia?s increasing use of fibre to the node (FTTN) has locked the country out of world-class broadband for years to come.

The Rationale for Universal Access to Digital Services

This paper presents a position and identifies future research necessary to support the transition from the universal service regime to a universal access regime that enshrines the principle of ensuring that federal, state and local egovernment and other specified digital services are reasonably accessible to all, on an equitable basis, wherever they work or live.

The UN Broadband Commission for Digital Development

High-speed broadband networks are an essential element in today?s society, and access should be available on an equitable basis, worldwide. This paper explores how that goal can be achieved, and describes the work being done by the UN Broadband Commission for Digital Development.

Another great wonder of the world? Early experience with high speed broadband

This guest editorial provides an overview of eight papers describing early experiences with high speed broadband.

TJA's NBN policy panel

In the lead-up to the Australian federal election in September 2013, there is huge and often bitter controversy over the potential benefits and disadvantages of each policy. TJA has assembled an NBN Policy Panel of four experienced commentators, ranging in their political sympathies from "centre left to centre right" – and none of them uncritical supporters of either policy. Their disciplines span the engineering, economics and marketing of broadband telecommunications.