EDITOR'S NOTE

Good Afternoon;

A question for the weekend.

How far could a network operator extend fibre networks into the bush if regional customers were prepared to subsidise the cost of being provisioned by digging their own ditches?

It is a scheme that worked wonders in countries with concentrated populations. But could it work here?

-- Brett Winterford

TODAY ON ITNEWS

By Brett Winterford | May 15, 2009

Telecommunications analysts say there may be one way to ensure regional Australians can connect to the fibre network that underlies the NBN - by digging their own trenches.

By Ry Crozier | May 15, 2009

iiNet has sought to discredit claims made by a spokesperson for the film and music industry last week that the ISP had tried to delay its high-profile copyright case in the Federal Court.

By Shaun Nichols | May 15, 2009

Google is blaming an error in its traffic routing system for causing a service outage that lasted several hours overnight.

By Staff writers | May 15, 2009

Building developer Grocon has started 'pre-caching' large CAD files at building project sites to reduce latency and stop employees from saving the files locally.

By Jim Finkle | May 15, 2009

Hackers launched an attack on Facebook's 200 million users on Thursday, successfully gathering passwords from some of them in the latest campaign to prey on members of the popular social networking site.

By Shaun Nichols | May 15, 2009

AMD says it has reached a new top speed for graphics processing.

By Iain Thomson | May 15, 2009

NASA astronaut Mike Massimino has made Twitter history by sending the first ever tweets from space.

By Rosalie Marshall | May 15, 2009

Sony has joined the growing number of Japanese electronics companies to report large-scale losses, as consumers withhold from buying the latest devices and make do with what they have.

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