Re: [LINK] The data drought

2015-10-09 Thread JanW
At 04:21 PM 9/10/2015, David Boxall you wrote: > From one of the comments: > >"... these children deserve better their education time is NOW not in >2020 when the NBN is sorted .. The govt / education dept decided that >this

Re: [LINK] The data drought

2015-10-08 Thread David Boxall
On 7/10/2015 8:47 PM, Richard Archer wrote: > ... > And then we got unlucky again. > ... "Yesterday a distance education Mum / Home Tutor (yes it's a multiple hat wearing position !) had to resort to doing school in her car with

Re: [LINK] The data drought

2015-10-07 Thread Richard Archer
On 7/10/15 8:27 PM, David Boxall wrote:Fibre could last a century. On a similar time-scale, we ran copper into > some remarkably remote locations. That project began with picks, shovels > and horses. Beginning today, what could we achieve? Marree already has fibre running to the town. But they

Re: [LINK] The data drought

2015-10-06 Thread Tom Worthington
On 05/10/15 23:17, Karl Auer wrote: > By providing a substandard service to as much of the country as > possible, they keep the embarrassing cost blowouts down ... I thought the original idea of the NBN was to cross-subsidize regional users with revenue from the city. > ... a deliberate

Re: [LINK] The data drought

2015-10-05 Thread JanW
At 11:17 PM 5/10/2015, Karl Auer wrote: >People's requirements are not geographically defined, so why do so many >people think it makes sense to provide service quality based on >geography? Turnbull responded to a person complaining about BAD connectivity by asking why the person moved there if

Re: [LINK] The data drought

2015-10-05 Thread Karl Auer
On Mon, 2015-10-05 at 11:08 +1100, Tom Worthington wrote: > Who is playing the NBN for political gain? There would not seem to be > anything to gain for the incumbent government, whoever they are, to > deliberately limit NBN service in remote areas. Or are you suggesting > someone else is

Re: [LINK] The data drought

2015-10-04 Thread Tom Worthington
On 04/10/15 14:37, David Boxall wrote: > I get the distinct feeling the whole NBN thing is being played for > political gain more than anything else. ... Who is playing the NBN for political gain? There would not seem to be anything to gain for the incumbent government, whoever they are, to

[LINK] The data drought

2015-10-03 Thread David Boxall
I get the distinct feeling the whole NBN thing is being played for political gain more than anything else. "Many people in rural and regional Australia are suffering from a drought and it's not because of a lack of rain. This drought is

Re: [LINK] The data drought

2015-10-03 Thread David Boxall
On 4/10/2015 2:37 PM, David Boxall wrote: > I get the distinct feeling the whole NBN thing is being played for > political gain more than anything else. > ... A cogent comment from the Facebook page: "The Nationals