Once new services are ready for rollout, it is also easy to attain commercial critical mass because the largest markets are concentrated in small geographical areas. The ability to reach large numbers of end-users in a relatively small area is prompting some interesting developments. The goal is to provide high-speed data services in Sydney's busy central business district.
Utilities plan to use their infrastructure to create high-capacity networks.
By the time the Olympics begin in September 2000, Sydney will be one of the best-wired cities in the world. Such innovation is nothing new for Australia. OzEmail already had a high-speed nationwide network to support its more than 300,000 Internet customers, so adding phone services required little more than development and testing. OzEmail's innovative technology has since been licensed by several international carriers. With the growth of fiber-based data networks, analog systems will be virtually eliminated over the next year.