atw: Re: National Broadband Network issue
- From: Lana Brindley <lanabrindley@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:48:56 +1000
*stands*
*applauses*
*sits back down*
Thanks for that Rhonda :)
L
On 18 August 2010 08:24, Rhonda Bracey <rhonda.bracey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I've never been one discuss politics (or even been interested too much
> in the 'issues' surrounding an election). And I have no intention of
> starting a discussion about politics here.
>
> However, for many of you who work from home (whether in the city or
> not), or who would like to work from home, the National Broadband
> Network issue is one that affects you directly.
>
> I blogged about my stance on this critical issue to my ability to work
> here:
> http://cybertext.wordpress.com/2010/08/13/letter-to-local-member-of-parl
> iament-re-the-nbn/ (or http://bit.ly/aewMZq)
>
> The NBN is something I feel very passionate about, and even more so
> since having an email discussion yesterday with Helen, a member of
> another list I'm on. Helen has moved from Pemberton, WA to a property
> about an hour south of Perth. She cannot even get phone, let alone
> internet on her new property. As her internet access is severely
> limited, I'll quote from an email she wrote to me today when she was
> back in Pemberton:
>
> "We are fed up with them, whoever 'they' are. We have had to have
> satellite internet here because we are 100m from a hub/rim, in spite of
> campaigning to get internet here, which everyone else does have now,
> except us. The phone line (180m) was laid and connected on Friday only
> for them to 'discover' there is a fault on the town side of the line.
> The fault is, just like your cake, there was one 'pair gain' whatever
> left for us to have and it has a fault. You can't tell me they didn't
> know that, and that is why it was left. So no phone and no internet."
>
> And this is an hour out of a major capital city, not woop-woop.
>
> Some 50+ years ago an Australian government had the vision to lay copper
> lines throughout the country to provide us with an (almost) universal
> telephone service. Now a government wants to do a similarly large
> infrastructure project, this time with materials that should last a
> further 50+ years, but the opposition wants to keep us in the dark ages
> of a failing copper wire network (and boy, have I had experience of it
> failing!), or build thousands more mobile phone towers to provide us
> with a slow satellite service.
>
> I'll shut up now.
>
> Rhonda
>
> Rhonda Bracey
> rhonda.bracey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> http://www.cybertext.com.au
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Cheers! Lana
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