by Dr Hugh Bradlow, 8 September 2008
Dr Hugh Bradlow responds to a few of your comments submitted to the “Technology Laws of Telecommunications Economics” blog series - in which he argued that it was somewhat deluded to expect that the economics of broadband supply and demand would be the same in Australia as they were in the populous regions of the northern hemisphere.
In March this year, I wrote a blog as part of my series on the “Technology Laws of Telecommunications Economics” entitled Law 3: "Telecommunications efficiency is driven by scale economies”. I pointed out that it was somewhat deluded to expect that the economics of broadband supply and demand would be the same in Australia as they are in the populous regions of the northern hemisphere. At the time a number of people commented on the blog that the overall population density comparisons... More...