[LINK] Telstra - taking its ball and going home.

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Howard Lowndes wrote:
> Running decent broadband in rural areas is never going to make money so 
> it has to be a community/government expense.
> 
> In the case of the client with 10 lines, we did look at the option of a 
> community funded wireless network, but that was never going to get up. 
> The local township has DSL so they aren't interested and it would need a 
> contribution from at least 30 of the out of range business to make the 
> project viable, and that just wasn't going to get up either.
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...we have been through this before...but what we need is some kind of 
measure of what is "decent broadband"...then this needs to be balanced 
against cost/risk....

 From a government policy perspective the quicker telstra is out of the 
equation the better...however, then there is the issue of the ownership 
of the infrastructure/real value (based on return on infrastructure) of 
telstra.

When you say rural do you mean the farms around Albury/Wodonga or a more 
remote township?

Marghanita
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Marghanita da Cruz
Ramin Communications
http://www.ramin.com.au
Phone: 0414-869202
Email: marghanita at ramin.com.au