[LINK] Kids, Cattle and Mobile Phones

[Tom Worthington]

On 14/03/16 16:37, David Boxall wrote:

> As bush telecomm's fall further and further behind, I wonder how the
> issue will impact the coming election. ...

Whoever is in government is going to suffer criticism from regional and 
remote Australia over telecommunications. The NBN by promising much, 
makes the federal government a magnet for criticism about 
telecommunications. The NBN also increases the disparity between city 
and country residents. There is no way to provide the same service to a 
remote user via satellite, as to a city user on fiber.

The Federal Government will likely also get the blame for problems which 
are not of their making. As an example, school education is the 
responsibility of the states. Students in remote areas are "Distance 
Education" (DE) students. DE education is normally designed on the 
assumption students have intermittent, limited access to communications.

The complaints I read from parents suggest that the education their 
children are receiving (or not receiving) is designed for reliable, 
continuous broadband access. The parents blame the federal government 
for the limited telecommunications, rather than the state education 
department for poorly designed courses.


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