[LINK] A rant from the bush

[David Boxall]

Not everyone is happy with Malcolm's Muddle, it seems.
> As a very cruel and underdone interim solution what we have been 
> putting up with can't be compared with what is coming. If u only 
> consider speed there will be no comparison. Data allowances on the 
> other hand are another story. If u are comparing apples with apples 
> there isn't a great deal in it. There are only 3 iSP's at present and 
> they buy wholesale and sell retail. To be competitive they have to be 
> similar. If you can learn how to compare you will see what I mean. 
> People need to stop focusing on the iSP's for satellite internet and 
> focus on the real issue. I have said this here before. If you have 
> access to fixed wireless or fibre you can get 1000gb for 200 dollars 
> anywhere from a possible bakers dozen of iSP's. On satellite you have 
> 3 choices. In a free market why aren't there more iSP's ? Well that's 
> simple!! The margins for the iSP's aren't there. For the same money as 
> fibre and FW you can get a measly 65 gb's of useable data on 
> satellite. And as an aside you will find it easy to find an Nbn 
> employee who will try and tell you that you will have to adjust your 
> internet usage to take advantage of he off peak data ( midnight till 
> 6am approx) and in the next breath talk about how cool Netflix will be 
> when you have access to Fibre or FW. Tell me where there is an ounce 
> equality here. All problems require a solution and I have one but I am 
> sure there are more than what I am offering here. A simple aim is to 
> remove everyone who can get access to the Nbn via another method off 
> satellite so as to increase the data available to a more fair and 
> equitable amount. I.e. At least 300gb per mth anytime not peak and off 
> peak as currently is the case. When the Nbn reduced the fibre foot 
> print in every regional and rural centre in Australia what did they 
> do?? They put the vast majority on satellite. I live 12km from town I 
> have a communications business and I retail internet through activ8. 
> Where I once had the opportunity for fibre I now do not. All those who 
> should have had fibre before the map adjustment are now on satellite. 
> If you reduce the size of each slice of the "data pizza" into smaller 
> pieces the results are simple. Those on fibre and fixed wireless have 
> everything required to take advantage of the new and exciting data 
> age. Those outside of this area have a choice, move into town to 
> compete or exist with what you have always had. If the distribution of 
> data was more equitable with the ltss this forum would soon cease to 
> exist. We have to stop focusing on the iSP's because they can only 
> offer what the Nbn has dictated. Why do you think that where there was 
> once 8 iSP's in the ABG days and the Interim Nbn solution and now in a 
> free and competitive market there is only now 3 offering internet 
> through the Nbn long term satellite solution??????
> The only way forward is if the national cattlemans association the 
> icpa, bush schools, parks, police, health and every governing body in 
> rural and regional Australia could find a way to unite and march up to 
> the now prime minister and the "then" author of this debacle (as the 
> communications minister)and make him fix what has been ballsed up from 
> the very beginning. At a recent NBN meeting in our town a 
> representative of our cattlemans association repeated a statement from 
> the communications minister at the time when this planning took place 
> and repeated a statement "the people in the bush will not be left behind"
> Just another powerful piece of political bullshit.
> "Focus on the problem, be armed with a viable solution" and the people 
> who most need for this to be revised may have a comparable chance at 
> moving forward!
> And now good night from me.
> Kim Window
> Comcat
> "For all your communication needs"
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