The airways can only hold so much. The NBN will be what AU needs right across AU.
At some stage wireless has to touch ground, The sooner the better.
Wireless has limitations, and mostly in remote au. If you are not connected to Telstra you get no service.
The NBN will make everyone equal no matter where you live.

Rechtub may have a point, we should not over look.
It was Queenslanders who first warned us about the curtains fading after the start of daylight saving.
And something is going on here,chooks are not laying.
I have five roosters out the back that have never laid an egg.

MB ...Out here where I live in a rural area of Australia, we are all for the NBN. We lack lots of services that you in the city have, doctors and other health services, easy access to museums and other learning resources for education.

You're right, however, that's why land is so cheap in comparison.

It's when those in the bush, pay a pittance for their homes (mining towns excluded) then want all the services, which causes many problems.

You can't have your cake and eat it. Or can you!

I own property in western QLD and also work there, so it will benefit me greatly, but I fail to see the need.

Belly, nice try.

As for DLS, or more so, why we don't want it, is because our state is so large.

Few realize that Cains is further west than Charliville.

Anyway, back to the topic.

I admit that I know little about it, hence my original post.

As usual, I will be the first to apologize, should the NBN be the huge success we are often told it will be.

Rechub I agree it seems greedy for me to want the taxpayer to spend that much giving me broadband but the way I see it, I have waited 10 years for it to happen via private enterprise and it didn't. The internet is not a lifestyle choice these days; it's not all about entertainment. It is essential for some jobs and it will open up the possibility for more types of businesses to set-up out here.

I think that it will be an investment in the future, like roads and the telegraph lines.

When there is broadband my oldest son and my daughter both Internet professionals who live in big cities will be able to set up a business out here. That is what we need to re-grow the regional areas; young people moving back and more small businesses.

Mollydukes, two holes I see in your theory.

1. Young ones dont want to live in the bush

2. Nor do they want to own a small business, unless of cause it's an Internet business, in which case, refer to 1.

I have an iPad with a telstra sim, it is great. Emails, Internet, downloads, no worries.

I don't know what else one needs.