Photos require bandwidth.  Photos require bandwidth. Photo: Nic
Kocher  I HAVE had the National Broadband Network connected to
my Brunswick studio for more than a year, and it certainly has
changed the way I work. I no longer deliver images on a CD but
use a cloud service such as Dropbox. I use a few photo
retouchers and, where previously I would use a courier to
shuttle large documents, I now do it all online. I could do all
these things with ordinary ADSL, but to do them while streaming
high-quality music and watching a Cartier-Bresson documentary on
YouTube, I need fibre broadband.  The NBN is a national
wholesale data network being built by NBN Co. It will be
constructed over 10 years, with the federal government paying
most of the $40 billion construction cost. It is estimated to be
paid back in dividends by 2034.  The network will gradually
replace the ageing copper network. About 93 per cent of the
population will receive optical fibre to their premises and the
rest will be serviced by a 4G LTE wireles