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Originally Posted by The_bluester
Actually that is just plain wrong, it is a testament to how poorly the previous government explained the scope of the project. There is (Was. I make no assumptions of any sort under the new government except that we have to wait and see) NO town in Australia which was to not get the NBN, the service delivery method might have been fixed wireless and might have been satellite based, but it was still coming. And the fixed wireless was supposed to be completed sometime in 2015. Similar for the permanent sat connections, the NBN birds were supposed to launch in 2015 as well IIRC.
When NBN say "No plans" they meant "Not planned yet" Fixed wireless also pops up very quickly. I stopped looking for a couple of months knowing that I would not be on fibre anyway due to location (It would cost a couple of hundred K to connect us and even a fibre booster like me knows full well that it would be wasteful) When I stopped looking we were not on the rollout plan at all. A couple of months later I looked again and we were "under construction" for fixed wireless and a week after that it was RFS (Ready For Service) So long as the signal strength gods smile on me we will have a fixed wireless connection on Thursday this week. We have trees between us and the tower but otherwise good LOS and are only a couple of KM away. Unlike rolling out fibre, the fixed wireless sites go up very quickly (A couple of months) after construction begins.
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Since you know so much about our situation here in SA. Take a look at South Australia around the northern and eastern part of lake alexandrina. I have contacted NBN Co and they said there is no plan at all to have a connection there. Don't tell me I am wrong if you don't actually know about my situation mate!