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Wired Brown Land?: Telstra's Battle for Broadband
Paul Fletcher
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Description for Wired Brown Land?: Telstra's Battle for Broadband
Paperback. A narrative of the twists and turns in a struggle for the control of a multi-billion dollar industry. It describes the commercial and political battle between Telstra and everyone else to control Australia's broadband infrastructure, a struggle that escalates as the Government prepares to spend $4.7 billion on a new broadband network. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: TJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 153 x 21. Weight in Grams: 370.
As Australia struggles with the question of whether to build a new national broadband network and with the Rudd Government promising to spend $4.7 billion of taxpayers' money, it is an extremely timely contribution to a crucial public debate. Written by an industry insider who knows and has dealt with all the key players in the broadband battles and interviewed many of them on and off the record for this book. This title is filled with strong, charismatic characters like Telstra's Sol Trujillo and Phil Burgess, Telecommunications Ministers past and present Helen Coonan and Stephen Conroy and Graeme Samuel, Chair ... Read more
As Australia struggles with the question of whether to build a new national broadband network and with the Rudd Government promising to spend $4.7 billion of taxpayers' money, it is an extremely timely contribution to a crucial public debate. Written by an industry insider who knows and has dealt with all the key players in the broadband battles and interviewed many of them on and off the record for this book. This title is filled with strong, charismatic characters like Telstra's Sol Trujillo and Phil Burgess, Telecommunications Ministers past and present Helen Coonan and Stephen Conroy and Graeme Samuel, Chair ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of New South Wales Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Sydney, NSW, Australia
ISBN
9781742230030
SKU
V9781742230030
Shipping Time
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99-3
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