[LINK] NBN Long Term Satellite restrictions

[David Boxall]

On 23/10/2015 10:50 PM, JanW wrote:
...
> Hard to understand what everyone is doing with all that use ...
 From an off-list response:
<http://www.minister.communications.gov.au/paul_fletcher/speeches/commsday_satellite_summit_putting_satellite_to_its_highest_value_uses#.Vi6x2_5znSN>
"Work by the Department of Communications suggests that a typical 
distance education student will download 15 to 20 gigabytes (GB) of data 
in a month."

On 26/10/2015 12:49 AM, Paul Brooks wrote:
>...
> It might not necessarily be video. ...
 From off-list response:
>  one parent has told me that their child's studies use 5 to 15 hours of video conferencing a week.
And, of course, much course content is video.

Work is in hand for a dedicated port on the satellite modem for things 
like education and health. That won't relieve the load on the satellite 
though.

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