[LINK] The cost of neglected infrastructure

[David Boxall]

An increasingly-common type of story:
- ADSL-enabled exchange, without available ports;
- subscriber resorts to mobile data, with external antenna and signal 
booster;
- it works for a while, but service eventually degrades beyond usability;
- they try to move, but house won't sell;
- NBN looks like offering fixed wireless, but towers are few and house 
is in a valley;
- atrocious information-management by NBN™ aggravates problems.

<https://www.facebook.com/groups/BIRRR/permalink/501902553351770/>
> Ok. I won't go into detail, but after being told different things b 
> Telstra, it is clear thatcwe cannot get an adsl connection ever. We 
> have been using mobile data with limited success and now this has 
> dropped below dial-up speed. We've tried to get this fixed by telstra 
> (last time this happened it was a problem with the tower) but nobody 
> wants to listen.
>
> Our suburb (Nobbys Creek) doesn't appear on the NBN map yet, and even 
> still it seems like they are going with wireless in thegeneral area- 
> which doesnt help us as we're in a valley.
>
> I even tried to move but our house didnt sell. We work from home and 
> it has become comletely untenable. Do I have any options at all?
>
> I'm feeling really frustrated and depressed. We aren't even remote, so 
> don't seem to be part of the equation at all.
Nobbys Creek is West of Murwillumbah: -28.2940454,153.3019855.

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