[LINK] NBN Providing Wireless for Regional Areas

[Richard]

Also, if Brunswick's household mobility is in line with the rest of the 
country, some of the 20% not connected will have recently moved home, 
surely?

RC

On 7/03/13 9:29 AM, Paul Brooks wrote:
> On 7/03/2013 8:34 AM, Tom Worthington wrote:
>> While the study concentrated on take-up of the NBN, Long suggests there
>> should be more research on why 20% of households have no Internet access
>> at all, which is a good question. However, it was not clear to me from
>> the study report if households where residents had one or more  smart
>> phones or tablet computers with broadband wireless built in where
>> counted as connected. If not, then the number of connected households
>> would be greatly under-reported. The popularity of wireless devices
>> might make the concept of "household" connection largely irrelevant,
>> much as mobile phones has lessened the need for a home fixed telephone
>> lines. Previously the number of telephone lines per 1,000 population was
>> used as a measure of the communications access of a country, but this is
>> now largely irrelevant.
> It is clear to me that the study did report and include households where the residents
> accessed the Internet through wireless broadband as connected.
>
> P13 of the report includes in the main discussion of findings "57% had a fixed-line
> broadband connection (DSL/ADSL, cable), *18% had a mobile or wireless broadband
> connection*, and 20% had an NBN connection (see Figure 1).
>
>
> P14 of the report clear includes the connection type of 'mobile phone' and 'wireless',
> Figure 5 clearly breaks out 'wireless' as a category by household income, and at the
> top of page 18 is the explanation "Comparing specific household Internet connection
> types, wireless broadband households were much more likely to be motivated by issues
> related to mobility in shared house situations, and in a transition or moving period. "
>
> To Geoff's mountain-from-a-molehill issue:
> The report further noted on the 20% with no Internet access at all - "This proportion
> is similar to the latest ABS figures from the 2011 census on household Internet access
> (2012)" and "Anecdotally from our research fieldwork, respondents who did not have
> home Internet were predominantly older and non-English speakers."
>
> The report also included references to other studies on reasons for non-usage, by ACMA
> and others.
>
>   When commenting on a report, it helps to have actually read it first.
>
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