[LINK] CWA urges action on data drought
David Boxall
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Sat Apr 23 20:31:58 AEST 2016
The impact of neglect by successive governments shouldn't surprise me,
but I'm shocked.
<http://www.theland.com.au/story/3862348/cwa-urges-action-on-data-drought/>
> ...
> Government needs to reverse the service gap between metropolitan and
> regional areas, or abandon the pretence of a push to shift Australia’s
> urban population away from the coast, Mrs Cameron said.
> ...
> “There is a role for government to make a strategic plan to
> decentralise its own services.”
> ...
> “We get 25 gigabytes a month for $160 and we are one of the fortunate
> ones.”
>
> She said when the internet came to her neck of the woods about a
> decade ago, the commercial offerings “were adequate, but now the
> demands outweigh availability”.
>
> More and more services requiring increasing amounts of data are going
> online – chewing up the meagre data allowances - ...
>
> Her daughter in law, who lives on a neighbouring property, started to
> study a degree in agriculture from home – but had ot give it up
> because the courses resources were streamed videos online.
>
> “The issue needs addressing urgently… People can’t conduct business,
> it affects the education of their children and it also affects
> important things like access to health services.
>
> “Just fix it. Enough is enough.”
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