This is the only point I'll make about a situation that has been made more complex than it needs to be
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Originally Posted by gary
Today household plans providing multiple gigabytes of data allowances per month
are commonplace and the trend curves show that increasing rapidly
over the years and decades ahead.
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I have said previously in other threads that unlimited data is the only way forward, anything else is just draconian.
People should not even be mentioning data plans with any kind of cap.
Much of the world now sees access to the internet as a basic human right and in most of Europe(Spain excluded) and the US it's unthinkable to not have unlimited data plans.
Same goes for phones too these days.
NBN might just be a good thing and needed but Australia's internet issues would likely still be not up to first world standards to begin with.
Also while we are at it why not a proper high speed rail network connecting all major cities and at an affordable end cost to the user. I'd never fly again.
The undertaking on a national level would be huge, the sort of grand scheme not seen for years. It would also open up new hubs along the lines. We need to invest in our country properly while we are still on top of things.
How Australia is not bouncing of the walls at this time is just bad management.
And I'd also sack the official bribes committee, they failed on the World Cup and SKA. Lets put some of that Chinese money to better use at least.
Are these the most pressing of commitments?
Maybe not but I'd put them up the list a whole lot higher than playing tug boat with our navy in the Pacific.
They shouldn't even be election issues, they should just be. It's hard to believe in the one country has boomed over the last 20 years and side stepped the economic crisis that questions of basic infrastructure are even being discussed.
Get our priorities in order and keep our nation employed with home grown investment.