Kazacos: Businesses need NBN to be competitive internationally
- 18 March, 2010 11:51
- Comments 5
The National Broadband Network (NBN) will help companies compete on an international scale, according to Hostech executive chairman, Peter Kazacos.
“One of the reasons why I think Government is doing the NBN, is to make Australia competitive internationally,” Kazacos said. “We’re competing with countries such as Korea, which have much more powerful broadband links than us. In the Asian corridor we need to increase our capability otherwise we really can’t build business.”
The Government has been pushing the consumer agenda on the NBN. It says users will be able to download more movies and music faster. However, Kazacos said businesses need to recognise the value in the network.
“Businesses really need to understand what it means to them and also what it means to them to be internationally competitive,” he said.
“The message still needs to be changed. When the government talks about the value [of the NBN], it’s really talking about consumers. It doesn’t really talk about business and that message needs to be understood.
“We need the NBN to be competitive in the international space. That’s the way it is.”
The roll out of the NBN is expected to increase uptake in cloud computing and video conferencing services.
Kazacos said these technologies hadn’t really taken off because of a lack of broadband reliability and speed.
“As something like the NBN gets rolled out into regional Australia, we’ll see more take-up in cloud computing technology,” he said.
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Comments
jay
1
Bollocks. Businesses who are serious about their business will use data centers which already provide adequate connectivity. What we all need is a fatter cable to the USA, not fatter cables to every individuals shoe-box.
Phil Collins
2
Hang on, wasn't only last week Mike Quigley was out there talking about what business services NBN will offer? And what was that tech business forum thingy the govt ran last December in Sydney?
Walter Adamson
3
Kazacos is a proven smart businessman, so I'm surprised he mentions regional Australia as a target, is this a sign of political ambitions?
I'm sure he wouldn't invest his own money into rolling broadband out to regional centres with near zero return or value-add in comparison to the population centres. Yet Australia, who we're now told cannot even afford the $90m insulation mess cleanup, has spend about $500m so far on laying cable to dead ends in the country including Tasmania.
Sure the NBN could be a key wealth generator, but let's get real - Australia one of the most urbanised countries in the world and yet while we can't afford the basics around healthcare and education we've paid cable trench diggers hundreds of millions of dollars for zero economic benefit. It has to point to the hard fact that the NBN can never be a viable economic proposition unless the Government writes off billions of $$$ of taxpayers' money which it has and plans to needless spend.
If they want to support social services to the country then let's name those outright as social services and then we all know where we stand and how they are funded - from ongoing tax revenue. Otherwise every user of the NBN has to fund these social services - that's back to forced community service obligations which cripple any commercial viability, ask Telstra.
Walter Adamson
Reg
4
Obviously comments from people with no understanding of business. Jay, so a fatter cable to the US will grow local content, new technologies, new services to be delivered via the cloud and whatever new business ideas and models that Australians could invent? One of the 'N's in NBN stands for National where most businesses do most of their business.
Walter sees the NBN as a wasted social service that he doesnt want to contribute to because his is probably from Sydney. So maybe we shouldn't bother with hospitals, schools or even roads because you in the city don't need them. Such an ignorant attitude- there is really nothing to say there.
Anon- pathetic sense of humour...better not mention your real name, or do you really not know who PK is?
Darren
5
The guy is saying he sees value in the NBN for his business which services australia. I cant see where the controversy is.