[LINK] Broadband for a Broad Land

[David Boxall]

On 3/01/2011 10:21 PM, Kim Holburn wrote:
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> Wireless seems like a great idea until you travel in the country.   In the last week or so, we drove from Canberra to Adelaide and back.  The Sturt highway was closed due to flooding at Narrandera so we had to go through Deniliquin and along the Malley highway.  Once out of Deniliquin we had no Vodafone network until we got to Tailem Bend, 574 km.   There was Optus and Telstra sometimes but no Vodafone. ...
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> ...  We have a long way to go to get mobile wireless coverage in Australia.  Having all this duplication of mobile coverage in cities has not helped the bush all that much so far.
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So why didn't the government of the day choose a better way? It seems to 
me that a single coordinated mobile 'phone network, making optimum use 
of available spectrum, would serve us best. Was it lack of imagination 
or lack of talent? Or did they just want the money from selling 
spectrum, so they could buy our votes?

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