SM does not see outside capital city's.

Go for a drive around this country and you will see why broadband is needed. 90% of AU is living in the dark ages, with no communication. Mining sites roll out their own system, bugger anyone else. The greatest infrastructure job since the Snowy Mountains scheme.

579

90% live in the cities. Why should the needs of 10% dictate that 90% should pay much more than they need?

Infrastructure costs money, and does not need to have a majority rule to come about. City dwellers would not know the needs of the 10% that do not have communication. Broadband will open the vast interior up, to something more use-full than growing skinny cattle. Your disregard for the 10% is very narrow minded, and inward looking.

579 said;
Broadband will open the vast interior up, to something more use-full
than growing skinny cattle.

Such as ?

Too many people think that to get broadband you MUST have fibre
everywhere and it MUST be 100Mbit + to be of any use at all.
It simply is not true.

It is like demanding a four lane motorway from Sydney to Broken Hill.
You don't need it and cannot pay for it.
Asking the whole population to pay for it would not make it feasible.

I will at some time have 100 Mbits available but I do not need it
and will not pay for it.
A very few companies in the country areas will need 100Mbits and if so
let them pay for it. The other 9% will be very happy with 10 Mbits as
I am and many others are also.
All that needs to be done is get fibre, or equivalent microwave links
to every exchange in the country. To say that is going back to two
cans and string just shows the ignorance of those promoting that mind set.

As someone else said & I repeated, to make an improvement the remote
servers will need to be improved. However that would need big money
to be spent and there is no case for the public to contribute to that cost.

579

Your disregard for the 90% of Australians who will have to pay inflated prices to subsidise a small portion of our population is breath taking, especially since the take up for this new NBN is so low.