[LINK] Poor Get Poorest NBN Service

[Tom Worthington]

In "Three charts on: the NBN and Australia’s digital divide", 
researchers Schram, Baum, Fisher, Harris, Friel and Frereman show that 
socio-economic disadvantaged areas of Australia have been missing out on 
the faster fiber National Broadband Network (The Conversation, June 21, 
2017): 
https://theconversation.com/three-charts-on-the-nbn-and-australias-digital-divide-78911

However, why this may be the case: deliberate discrimination by NBN Co., 
an effect of the technology, or the way the existing infrastructure was 
built, the authors do not mention. Perhaps this will be in the peer 
reviewed publication of the research to come.

ps: This is not quite the broadband for social good which Roger Clarke 
and I envisioned in 1994: http://www.tomw.net.au/nt/vision.html


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