[LINK] How fast is the NBN?

[Janet Hawtin]

I saw some old photographs of the ditches dug on East Terrace in Adelaide.
I do not know if they were putting in water, sewage or both but the hole
was thorough, deep enough to stand in and dug by hand. The rail
infrastructure across the country was equally thorough. What kind of nbn
would they be building? Why is real infrastructure not seen as an asset
anymore?

On 28 February 2016 at 13:27, Frank O'Connor <francisoconnor3 at bigpond.com>
wrote:

> Mmmm,
>
> > On 28 Feb 2016, at 1:44 PM, David Boxall <linkdb at boxall.name> wrote:
> >
> > On 28/02/2016 12:17 PM, Tom Worthington wrote:
> >> ...
> >> The future I imagine is one where people use data when out and about,
> > Only then? Do you see none being used in homes, businesses, factories
> and the like?
>
> Not to mention that Telstra is frantically trying to get its subscribers
> to sign up to contracts which include an essentially public’ modem that can
> be used by passers by as well as the subscriber to provide ‘universal’ WiFi
> capability no matter where people are.
>
> The point is that said connection is only available courtesy of the HOME
> LINE CONNECTION. Public WiFi accessability is being created ON THE BACK of
> the hardwired home line.
>
> >
> >> ... High speed broadband limited to home seems
> >> to me lacking in imagination: a quaint old fashioned view of the future,
> > Is a vision of broadband limited to mobile uses rational?
>
> Neither rational, or imaginative.
>
> Just my 2 cents worth …
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