A powerful force sizes up the broadband frontier

As Telstra’s market dominance continues to be scrutinised by the government, regulators and competitors, momentum is building in an ambitious project to construct a viable alternate national broadband infrastructure. A groundswell of interest has emerged from a powerful group of Australia’s electricity utilities, which are uniting in a bid to seize the potential synergies and opportunities in using their combined existing infrastructure as a platform for a residential and business broadband network