The NBN delivers the downsides of competition without its benefit.
“If you’re not connected you can’t compete,” said John Barilaro’s media release announcing the state government's $400 million pledge. But compete isn’t all you can’t do. Without connectivity you can’t work. You can’t socialise, shop, farm, plan, run your business, check the weather or educate your kids. You can’t get help. Sometimes you can’t survive.Everyone in the city whinges about slow internet, and with reason.
Take my wee farm. By Australian standards it’s scarcely remote. We pay rates, we have a postie. My nearest neighbour, half a kilometre away, used to run the switchboard from home, back when your landline was your lifeline. But mobile? The nearest reliable reception is 50 kilometres on a winding, part-dirt road.
Until it wasn’t. Suddenly, that black Sunday after the federal election, my internet died. It’s been dead ever since – not a flicker. Yet I’ve been patient. As I say, it’s a 50 kilometre drive back to phone reception, so every time they say “try this” or “troubleshoot that” or “are you sure the blue cable is in the red WAN port?” it’s not just me popping to the next room. There are serious implications in terms of time and money .
emfarrelly stupidity prevails, same as banning Huawei from 5G
emfarrelly Kevins brilliant “back of a beer coaster” idea.
emfarrelly Thanks again Kevin,you dill