Doesn't cut it, for reasons described previously. - it needs to be reasonable high speed now, and able to grow further - decent upstream bandwidth. - standard wireless trickery does not satisfy these needs - satellite is useless as it's a) high latency b) no upstream. - available to everybody. And I do mean everybody not some funky % that excludes people outside major population centres. in AU.
This is vital for our future as a country: business, education, health. It also affects what kind of business are possible (how green they can be) and where they can be located, as well as whom they can employ. It's critical.
Coalition plans
Date: 2010-08-10 07:00 am (UTC)- it needs to be reasonable high speed now, and able to grow further
- decent upstream bandwidth.
- standard wireless trickery does not satisfy these needs
- satellite is useless as it's a) high latency b) no upstream.
- available to everybody. And I do mean everybody not some funky % that excludes people outside major population centres. in AU.
This is vital for our future as a country: business, education, health.
It also affects what kind of business are possible (how green they can be) and where they can be located, as well as whom they can employ. It's critical.