[LINK] web: The NBN satellite Malcolm Turnbull never wanted prepares for liftoff

[Karl Auer]

On Tue, 2015-09-01 at 11:34 +1000, David Boxall wrote:
> On 31/08/2015 10:39 PM, Andy Farkas wrote:
> > I'm in rural Queensland. Fibre is not an option.

The idea that some places "just can't be reached by fibre" is just plain
wrong. (I know you didn't say that Andy - your email was just the
trigger for my rant :-)

There is almost no place on earth that cannot be reached by fibre. It
can certainly reach any spot that a human can reach, and many more
besides. We have fibre running over mountains, THROUGH mountains,
through forests, across the depths of the oceans, running thousands of
kilometres underground and underwater, not to mention strung on poles
here and there. About the only area where as far as I know there is no
fibre is in the arctic and antarctic regions.

Getting fibre to some places is more expensive than others, and some
environments are more hostile to fibre than others, but there is
literally NO technical impediment to connecting any square centimetre of
Australia we like by fibre.

Can we PLEASE stop assuming that the difficulties are technical? They
are political, and only ever were.

Regards, K.

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