What does the NBN and Sri Lanka have in common ?
- at $43 billion the NBN will cost more than the total annual production of Sri Lanka.
No wonder the Tamals get on little boats to come to Australia.
In Australia they spend more than Sri Lanka spends on everything on ensuring that an old lady in Wagga Wogga can download a video off the internet in under 10 minutes, instead of the painfully slow 25 minutes it took her yesterday.
I am all for spending $43 billion of tax payers money on something nobody can agree on. Hopefully it will result in petermac being able to post 34 random Utube clips a week instead of the current 17, or me being able to get my copy of Organic Papyaya Growing Monthly by e-mail instead of by the post.
If the Australian country and city has to have equal internet speeds, why don't they have to have equal education resources, hospital equipment, access to mental health services, refuse collection, public transport, police numbers or anything else ?
Instead of spending $43 billion putting the internet into the 22nd century why not spend $1 billion and get mobile phone coverage for 90% of the australian landmass up to 20th century technology ?
there are a lot of reasons farmers need broadband
weather forecasts, commodity info, kids and general education, medical contact, porn, seabreeze. not in that order though.....
My in laws live 13km on marginal dirt roads from the nearest town, 2hrs from the nearest regional centre and 600km from the state capital get 2 TV channels and that's in doubt when digital comes in, JUST in mobile range of some carriers, the power is marginal and limited because the SWER line.
Trust me broadband is the LAST thing they want or need..... City people may want to download movies, music or download porn at lightning speed (faster than they can watch it) but get a grip on reality is this needed for ALL Australians now
Could you afford ALL of these paid services? All of those cost $$$$ either ongoing costs or the equipment.
They grow wheat not money trees (not enough rain for those) and without wheat you won't get your wheat bix or toast for brekkie, donuts for morning tea or subway for lunch.
Broadband would make your life easier BUT a sealed road for them could mean the difference between life and death.
All I'm saying broadband will be great for a minority but basic infrastructure is good for ALL Australians
At $ 300,000 per km to upgrade and two coat seal a road you could get 143,000 km of roads sealed for $43 billion.
But - in answer to the original query -
NBN Facts?? Can anyone confirm or refute??
It appears not.
You would think somebody somewhere should have to put up a pretty sound business case to justify $43 billion new spend, but apparently not - or maybe they just aren't very good at selling that model it to the people who are paying for it.
Thanks for that Carantoc. Very much to the point.
ie:- What will the real benefits of the NBN be to those who will be paying to build it and once it is built what will it cost EXTRA to take advantage of the alleged benefits??
Perhaps an alternate thought for a NBN is leave it up to the commercial telcos to install the best equipment and infrastructure to suit them and their customers needs and expand the system in ALL forms of delivery (cable, fibre,wireless 3G,4G etc.). And let natural commercial decisions and rivalry drive the the network, and get the Gov. to chip in a bit to help the isolated areas of Australia with tax relief for those in need.