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Internet Australia has called for the Universal Service Obligation – a
scheme designed to ensure that everyone can have a basic telephone –
to be extended to include broadband connectivity. The Productivity
Commission is currently holding an inquiry into the USO and it is
highly likely that there will be quite a number of submissions from
delegates who saw this as an issue critical to their futures and those
of their children.
Internet access is not just about people keeping in contact with one
another online or watching television. Children struggling to complete
distance education with limited download speeds, limited data
allowances and frequent service disruptions is but one of the issues
facing people living outside the major population centres. Driving
hours at a time, often on multiple occasions in the same week, for
medical appointments that could very effectively be handled online,
via videoconference or remote diagnostic systems, with high speed
Internet access also had delegates pleading for action.
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http://david.boxall.id.au | --John Paul Jones
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