Victorian Schools Get High-Speed Broadband Boost
Source: Victoria. Premier. Media Release
"All Victorian Government schools will undergo a major broadband upgrade to increase their high-speed broadband capacity from four to 10 megabits-per-second, putting Victorian schools at the leading edge of the nation’s digital education revolution, Premier John Brumby said. Mr Brumby, Telstra CEO Sol Trujillo and Education Minister Bronwyn Pike announced the upgrade at Richmond Primary School during an interactive blogging lesson with students at Hawkesdale P-12 College more than 280 kilometres away. Mr Brumby said almost 1600 Victorian Government schools are already reaping the educational benefits of 4 Mbps high-speed broadband. This upgrade to 10 Mbps, funded through the Government’s $89.3 million VicSmart initiative, will begin this month and is expected to be completed in June 2009."