[LINK] maturity for the Australian internet?

[Brenda Aynsley]

On 30/10/13 14:48, Andrew Thornton wrote:
>
>                        Further to a newspaper article of about 2 weeks
> ago [Age?] in which a journalist said that she moved house and ended up
> with pitiful internet, will we ever reach a state of maturity in
> Australia? Namely, will internet become the same as water, gas or
> electricity in terms of mobility? I should be able to move from one
> house to another and know that as a professional internet user I won't
> be left high and dry.
>
>                        In the NBN debate this aspect seems to have been
> absent and I find that curious.
>


Is it so curious even today?

Going to some places in Australia you still get to use septic sewerage 
systems, even some thunderboxes - but more rarely.  If I was moving to a 
place that I suspected would have a problem with internet access, that 
would be a factor to be taken into account in the decision to move to 
that location.  I dont think its the vendor's problem to point out any 
inadequacy any more than I think its the government's job to ensure that 
this situation doesnt exist in broad terms (ie cost vs benefit).

And yes this is a very unequal position to hold but it's the reality of 
living in a very large land mass with so few people in it that makes the 
economics of service provision problematic.


cheers
brenda


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