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More than 400,000 Queensland homes and businesses have access to the network so far, with another 600,000 to be added this year.

The National Broadband Network could add $400 million a year to Queensland’s economy, a new study reveals.

Analysis of the impact high-speed internet connection will have on the bottom line of businesses forecasts a 1.8 per cent lift in GDP. But companies remain frustrated at the time the program is taking to reach them.

The study, by the Centre for Energy-Efficient Telecommunications (CEET) at the University of Melbourne, predicts the NBN will boost exports by 3.3 per cent and also lift business investment, household spending and raise wages slightly.

The researchers say they took a conservative approach and studied the effects across six categories: cloud computing, electronic commerce, online higher education, telehealth, teleworking and entertainment.

“Most of the benefit comes from telehealth and teleworking,’’ the report says.

Social demographer Bernard Salt said super-connectivity and the fluidity it created would affect every business and worker.

“Tradies will be able to manage their entire business on-site. The growth of electronic ­commerce means if you are a small business in Queensland, your market is no longer Brisbane or the Gold Coast but a global market.

“If you need training or skilling up, you won’t need to take time out to go to university, but download the materials from uni to study in-site.

“This idea that new technology will create mass unemployment is a furphy. It will change, not destroy employment.

Social demographer Bernard Salt said super-connectivity and the fluidity it created would affect every business and worker. Picture:Andrew Tauber

“There used to be 5000 people working in the photographic film-processing industry. Those jobs don’t exist now. But those people are not sitting at home watching daytime TV. Digital technology has re-purposed them and they are in different jobs.’’

The latest Chamber of Commerce and Industry Queensland digital readiness survey found only 35 per cent of small businesses are happy with their current internet speed, but 40 per cent do not know when or if they will get the NBN.

More than 400,000 Queensland homes and businesses have access to the network so far, with another 600,000 to be added this year. “Our goal is to make access to fast broadband available to all Australians and connect 8 million homes and businesses to the NBN by 2020,’’ a spokeswoman said.

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Autor(en)/Author(s): Daryl Passmore

Quelle/Source: The Courier Mail, 17.04.2016

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