[LINK] NBN pricing may dull broadband benefits: economist

[grove at zeta.org.au]

On Tue, 12 Mar 2013, Jan Whitaker wrote:

>> There was a discussion on link a short while ago about the asymmetry of
>> broadband speeds and producer/consumer model of internet usage. It struck me
>> that the best way to encourage a net designed for people to produce their own
>> content is to quote broadband speeds in terms of the slowest rather than the
>> fastest side of the link. I'm putting that idea in practice.
>
> AHHHHHH, now I get it. Problem is that most people won't know that's
> what you're doing for doing comparisons. That's why I was confused.


I really think this is one of the most important aspects of the NBN.
Without that ability to utilise the uplink to supply content, 
it would be just a bit half-baked and "consumer driven".
My partner Rob and I are already discussing how we could do this, without being a "business" and paying
the high end costs for backhaul.  We run a small web server, wiki and so on at home.  I can connect
to it OK, as I have a static IP, but it is too slow to do content "publishing" on.

If we can get full capacity both directions, I am sure there are many ways to monetise 
the capacity and make a small business out of it, doing basic hosting, specialist 
purpose-built apps and so on....   ....but the will has to be there to accept that
this would be a common use of the infrastructure.


rachel

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