Back in the day, one selling point for the NBN was that every Australian would have access to services "comparable" to those in metropolitan areas. Pretending to cobble together a network from a patchwork of left over scraps doesn't look like providing effective services in cities, let alone further afield. Cynic that I am, I doubt that it's intended to.
Checking out https://www.skymesh.net.au/, limiting scope to around the $50 per month mark and ignoring all other differences, for fibre or fixed wireless, retail price per gigabyte is around 30 cents. For satellite, it's around $2.50. Premises with mobile broadband coverage don't qualify for NBN satellite. I gather that the cost is around $10 per gigabyte. Given the pricing differentials, are those unequal services even equally accessible? Many of my neighbours are dependent on benefits, so there isn't a lot of spare cash. The push to get everyone online for government services is beginning to cause real hardship. -- David Boxall | My figures are just as good | as any other figures. http://david.boxall.id.au | I make them up myself, and they | always give me innocent pleasure. | --HL Mencken _______________________________________________ Link mailing list Link@mailman.anu.edu.au http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
