Have You Heard This Carl?

Probably you heard it yesterday as we are almost a day behind-LOL

Australia has started a massive infrastructure roll-out that aims to eventually connect 90% of homes down under to a fiber-optic network. The plan has drawn the interest of other countries, USA included, due to the sheer scale of the work. Best of luck, mates!

Engineers will lay cable across 7.7 million square kilometres (3 million square miles) of often challenging terrain which covers an area equivalent to two European Unions. …Specialised French digging machines have been shipped to Tasmania to lay the first of millions of kilometres of fibre-optic cable. By next June, three pilot towns are expected to be enjoying connection speeds of 100 megabits per second.

http://tech.yahoo.com/news/afp/20090927/tc_afp/australiatelecominternet

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http://tinyurl.com/y8uzv8w

Carl's probably out there with his shovel now... He wants all the Aboriginals to be able to play Star Trek online with him..

I suppose those Engineers will be going where no man has gone before.

I'll probably be weaving baskets in a retirement home by the time they've finished setting all that up.