[LINK] NBN Providing Wireless for Regional Areas

[Paul Brooks]

I guess you'll have to ask the guys who conducted the surveys about the precise wording of the questions...

Q: Knock Knock Knock
A: Can I help you?
Q: I'm doing a survey about internet and broadband - do you access the Internet from here?
A: Sure!
Q: Great - and how do you connect to the Internet - what do you use?
A: (pulls out phone from pocket) This!!


(I'm not convinced there would be a large proportion of people that would access Facebook from their phone, but not access any other form of Internet communication, or not access facebook from any other device. Facebook is still a lot more satisfying on a larger screen (I'm told :-) - and much of Facebook interaction involves clicking links and photos provided by others that lead to other sites, which then involves a web browser of some form more likely to be identified as 'accessing the Internet'.)

P.


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Tom Worthington <tom.worthington at tomw.net.au> wrote:

>On 07/03/13 09:29, Paul Brooks wrote:
>
>> It is clear to me that the study did report and include households where the residents
>> accessed the Internet through wireless broadband as connected. ...
>
>Would someone who just looks at Facebook on their smart phone think to 
>answer "Yes" to a question about having broadband to the home? They may 
>not think of the phone as having "broadband", or it being connected to 
>the "home".
>
>ps: Perhaps Brunswick needs BTTT: Broadband To The Tram. ;-)
>
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