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Skriven 2012-09-02 18:05:18 av David Drummond (3:640/305)
   Kommentar till text 3255 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.0)
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On 2/09/12 3:14 AM, mark lewis -> David Drummond wrote:

 DD>>> In Australia the government has deemed that Internet access is an
 DD>>> "essential of life" and will subsidise satellite access in far
 DD>>> flung regional areas.

 ml>> wow... how do they propose to keep the infrastructure up and active
 ml>> during times of environmental devistation and natural disasters?

 DD>> Satellite access is faitlr immube form such

 ml> satellite access has its own problems... the main reason why it is not
 ml> embraced in other locations is due to the speed problems... it requires
 ml> POTS uplink or possibly radio but the downlink traffic takes longer time
 ml> than a dialup POTS request and download...

You have very fast pots then.

Here we can get (at a minimum) 256Kbps down and 64K up - no POTS required.

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 DD>> We don't have "telco areas" here,

 ml> like everywhere else on the planet, you did at one time... government
 ml> controlled or not...

One telco - one area. The recent telcos rent copper from "the one" and can be
found in the same areas.

 DD>> all are everywhere - well, some cell companies don't deliver to
 DD>> the regional areas as over 90% of the population live in the
 DD>> cities.

 ml> and there ya go with one possible limit on access...

 DD>> The one telco that goes everywhere was government owned once but
 DD>> then they privatised it.

 ml> many times that's not really good but it is better than what came
before...

 DD>> Service isn't so good any more

 ml> any more?? it should actually be better know if everyone believes in the
 ml> commercialazition stories... are you saying that going "private" (aka
 ml> commercial) is actually worse??

Yes. The "corporate model" are more concerned about profits than providing a
serve amd are not spending on infrastructure as the govet model did.
 DD>> but they still deliver "out bush".

 ml> is that "eau natureal" or "brazilian"?? :) :)

Whoop whoop - in "the outback"

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 DD>> We're told that soon we will have to surrender our copper and take
 DD>> up fibre connections.

 ml> they can take my copper over my dead body!

I am reminded of "Men in Black" when the local yokel offers that reply when
asked to lay down his firearm"

 ml> at least copper works for
 ml> analogue comms when everything else is dead... unless the copper is cut
 ml> but then it only takes a simple crimp splice to reocnnect it... fiber
 ml> takes a bit more than that...

And when they have no analogue equipment to service your copper?

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Regards
David

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