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Originally Posted by mswhin63
Lets hope if it comes they will consider remote areas or areas that do not have ADSL2+ first. But knowing the way government works they will provide it to already established ADSL2+ customer and the rural and RIM community will have to wait until the system is squashed or run out of money. Satisfy the majority so they get the most votes.
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Maybe not so Malcolm, I noticed the list of mainland towns to be connected first contained quite a few places that didn't have huge populations. The fibre to Geraldton is being laid as we speak, and i can't wait for it to get here. The Internet service ( or lack thereof) has been abysmal for the last 25 years.
There is an ulterior motive of course, the SKA Pathfinder needs the bandwidth to transmit the huge amounts of data, but should be plenty room left for us ordinary folks.
As for wireless, no thanks. I live in a caravan park and as yet have no landline (coming soon I hope) so I'm stuck with either a telstra dongle or the park wireless system (Internode). After 9pm its OK as all the kiddies and tourists have gone to bed, but earlier there's no hope of downloading a big file or listening to streaming audio or video. If its raining and windy, forget it and go to bed.
The analogy with the railways is a good one, they opened up the country, I reckon the NBN will do a similar thing with comms.
