Innovation and productivity in Australia will be driven by NBN

The Minister for Broadband, Communications, and the Digital Economy in Australia has said that the NBN will drive innovation and productivity in Australia, likening the plan to the Apple iPhone

Stephen Conroy, the Minister for Broadband, Communications, and the Digital Economy in Australia, has recently stated that the National Broadband Network plan is set to drive innovation and productivity in Australia. Conroy went on to compare the NBN to the Apple iPhone, stating that nobody imagined how many applications would be used with the iPhone when it first came out, and likewise people failed to realise just how much could be done as a result of the NBN until it was well underway.

Speaking at the recent Realising our Broadband Future Forum Conroy stated that the NBN would enable applications to be used that people could not yet imagine, just in the same way that people had never imagined the types of applications that would one day be used with the Apple iPhone when the device was first launched. He said: ”The iPhone is an enabling platform in the mobile market in the same way as the NBN will be an enabling platform for Australia in the years and decades ahead.”

He went on to ask whether Apple should have waited to build its iPhone platform until all the applications had been made available, adding that there was a good chance that the applications would never have been made available had the platform not been built initially. He compared this to the platform for the NBN and the applications that could be applied to the NBN once it was up and running.

Conroy also spoke about the various benefits that the NBN would offer in sectors such as healthcare, education, industry, energy, and many other different areas.

Source – Domain-B