[LINK] Communications lobby group fears moving telephone service to SkyMuster for rural users

[David Boxall]

Wireless is less reliable than a cable in the ground. Satellite is less 
reliable than both. Suggesting that wireless or satellite is a viable 
replacement for a physical cable is mind-bogglingly idiotic. The first 
death would elevate it to criminal negligence.
<http://www.queenslandcountrylife.com.au/story/4439149/birrr-warns-against-uso-loss/>
> Instead of a telephone, the commission’s draft report’s suggested 
> alternative is a mobile phone service.
>
> For those not in a service area, 70 per cent of Australia’s land mass, 
> it suggests that nbn satellite would be the phone provider.

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