The Sunshine Coast Regional Council has recently become a member of the FTTH Council for Asia Pacific. 

The FTTH Council is a group of leading telecom, networking and infrastructure companies whose mandate is to promote the extension of fibre access across the Asia Pacific region. The Asia-Pacific group is the newest such Council, having been formally registered as a not-for-profit organisation early in 2005. It maintains close working links with the existing FTTH Council organisation in North America and Europe. FTTH Council members represent all areas of broadband industries, including telecommunications, computing, networking, system integration, engineering and content-provider companies, as well as traditional telecommunications service providers, utilities and municipalities.

FTTH is a global phenomenon with Australia recently adopting this as a national strategy. Participating as a Council member will provide strategic business opportunities for us to:

• Learn about worlds best practice and industry trends for FTTH delivery (including the approach used in leading countries for handling the complex integration of tasks);
• Overcoming the technical hurdles for deploying FTTH networks and services
• Make informed decisions for more efficient use of capital and better ROI decisions
• Provide opportunities to network and collaborate (while providing consistent information on FTTH from industry experts to members, consumers, media and analysts)
• Sharing of Council’s own experience and knowledge with industry peers
• Raise the profile of Connecting the Coast in a global context driving forward a sustainable community through technology integration

For more info visit FTTH Council Asia Pacific. 

You may be aware that earlier this year the Australian Government made one of the most significant infrastructure decisions in this country’s history.   This includes investing with the private sector to build a high-speed fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) broadband network connecting 90 per cent of homes and businesses - and deploying next-generation wireless and satellite to service the remaining 10 per cent.