Election Issues: National Broadband network

[rcon]

While Conroy admits he cannot get his filter up unless its able to clear the Senate, but if the Greens win the balance of power in the Senate, a deal will be done and the filter will come in, and we will have censorship similar may other countries around the world.

The Greens oppose the filter, but approve of the NBN.

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/techno ... 1267o.html

There is nothing to indicate "a deal will be struck".

But the greens will want something and for that something the government may well insist on their filter.

[Gaz787]

Yes, but thats pure speculation, and neither of us are Nostradamus.

[bennymacca]

thought this was a pretty interesting article

http://www.zdnet.com.au/why-copper-and- ... 307097.htm

[rcon]

Good read, but I think the author has a bit of a chip on his should an thinks everyone will derive some value from the NBN regardless of their needs. That said, I still don't really think anyone disagrees fiber is the answer if the question is "How do you want to build a broadband network", but I really don't think governments are there to answer simple, one word answer questions.

In slightly related thought stream, here is a (surprisingly for The Australian) unbiased history of the Labor party policy on the NBN. Bit of a long read, but very interesting.

Here is another example of an inexpensive "patch up" that could be around in a few years to help with rural areas - CSIRO using analog TV spectrum. Very cool

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010 ... ion=justin

[bennymacca]

to me, that looks like wimax, but because they are switching off the analogue tv they can now use that spectrum.

still pretty cool though

wimax is great for filling in the holes but at the present time it is not practical to have everyone using it.

[rcon]

Whoops, forgot to post the history link

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nationa ... 5948163541