[LINK] The PLAN, and broadband speeds?

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Karl Auer wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-06-25 at 09:53 -0400, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
>> Karl/Stewart - Copper was laid before we had wireless and before both
>> cables and wireless communication became digital
> 
> You miss the point. Who paid for isolated areas to get the phone, the
> power, a road? Why did they pay? What has changed, that those logics no
> longer seem to apply?
> 
They didn't put an electrified railway line to these properties, they
didn't even put a railway line, they only put a gravel road and some
properties only have diesal generators or windmills and solar.

Heard recently, how the ABC kept broadcasting in the Newcastle storms,
thanks to their backup generator.

M
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