A National Broadband Network – Do We Need It, Yes We Do and We Need It Today
I’ve left this debate alone this week, but now I’m going to offer my opinion on this, Do we need it? Of course we do, and we needed it years ago not just getting around to thinking about the pros and cons of it today.
There is already a super fast network in Europe called “The Grid” run by CERN, the company which tried to recreate the “big bang”theory which provides speeds at 10,000 times faster than a typical broadband connection, in real terms that means you could send the entire Rolling Stones back catalogue from Britian to Japan in less than 2 seconds, and of course the biggest usage of these speeds right now is for medical research and to provide Doctors with vital information during operations etc.
So as I sit here on the Gold Coast, with my 18kbps download antique ADSL connection, which Telstra tell me is fast, yeh right, and I pay about $70 a month for the privilege of sitting here watching the world go by as my downloads happen, try and ring the Telstra support line to get help with any problem and you’ll see what I mean, it’s not the staff, they’re very helpful when you finally get to speak to a humans fault, but how could you trust the development of a superfast broadband network to a company that can’t even provide cable services to my new estate on the coast? I take my hat off to Kevin Rudd for having the foresight to get this up and running.
Sol, take your millions and go back to the US, cos as far as I’m concerned the money you were paid could have been a lot better spent. With 80% of the Australian population currently connected to the net and a further 17% who are not connected today doing so by the end of 2009, the demand will only get greater for high speed broadband, and that is not even thinking about how medical science or the business community could benefit by having this high speed access.
So roll it along Kevin, cos I just can’t wait to give Telstra the boot and be able to download movies or music in a few seconds, rather than take a cut lunch to my desk and wait 10 hours for my downloads, anyway that’s my opinion, I’d like to hear yours as well through this blog, so let em come.
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