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Coalition broadband “even faster than dial-up”

The boys from Yes We Canberra! get stuck into the Coalition's broadband plan on this week's show.

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In tonight’s Yes We Canberra!:

– Tony Abbott’s personal debt is greater than the country’s
– A look at grass-roots political organisation GetUp!
– An election eve visit from the Old Spice Guy
– and all the latest on the launches and Latham in Campaign Roundup!

It airs 9:45pm on ABC1.

Make sure this clip loads before you play lol….

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  1. All good to get a high speed broadband network to improve business, but the irony is that where it would takes me less than a second to access data in the USA from the office, it takes me 1 and a half hours in traffic each day to get to work due to the lack of public transport options here in North West Sydney!!

  2. Still enjoyed last night’s ep – but thought it the weakest of the 4 made this season. However the Mark Riley piece to camera send up gave me the biggest laugh i’ve had in ages. Lots of gags, a little unfair i thought at Georgie Gardener’s expense. Looking forward to the final ep next week.

  4. @barrett, Tony Abbott really wants to turn the Department of Broadband Communications & Digital economy into the Department of Morse Code, Pigeon Post & Analog economy.

  5. It will be a shame if liberals get up and drop the NBN….if ever there was one piece of infrastructure that all Australians would benefit from,well this is it.Clearly no one on the liberals side has any technological vision.

  6. Not surprised Tony Abott doesn’t want to spend money on anything. After all aren’t the Libs the “wait and see” party.
    They wait and see if someone else will do something about it and then complain they could do it better.

  7. Sorry Ryan, that’s unfortunately the sort of attitude which has held us back in the past and left most of us trying to connect with the rest of the world via an aging copper network. I’ve been around long enough to have experienced the changes as we moved from dialling in to bulletin boards in the ’80s to dial-up internet in the ’90s, and now a fairly decent 5Mbps broadband connection. At every point it’s been difficult to see what we might be using the internet for 10 years down the track and why we would want faster speed.

    When I first got my 5Mbps connection in 2005, it more than met my needs since most servers I connected to weren’t pushing out data anywhere near that speed. Now that I often work from home and a lot of servers are on fast symmetrical connections, there are times when I would appreciate a faster download speed.

    As Benjamin and Kenny say, it’s not just about allowing people to download movies to their home a bit faster, it’s about improving education services, remote medicine, taking e-commerce to the next stage, and other things most of us haven’t thought of (hey, how about on-line voting in the federal election?).

    And Mr. Citizen – I hope you’re joking. During the ’90s Telstra behaved like the big, dumb telephone-fixated company they were, finally forced into offering 256kbps and 512kbps “fraudband” because other companies were starting to take their customers. None of this improved when Sol and the other two amigos came on board – they just became more stubborn and combative.

  8. First of all love the ad.

    To all who say who cares about the NBN is kidding themselves. I live in a regional area and my copper wire lines have shorted out and i needed Telstra to come out and replace them. This is the problem. The current system is failing and its time to change to fibre optics. I want this high speed broadband. I am sick of the slowness we have in this country. I have been to a country that has similar speeds to what is going to be offered here and i must say its so far out in front its not funny. We need this! We need to get with the times otherwise we will fall into a hole.

    Until you use this you have no idea how damn good it is.

  10. What Labor is not saying is how much will it cost the end user for all that speed?

    I’m on just a 1.5Mbps connection which is a far cry from the 128k ISDN I had not that long ago. I have enough data limit (but more is always better) and the likes of iTunes and iViews are not counted in my monthly data, neither are my uploads.

    IMO if the Libs get in this weekend then they will see the light and change their plans, maybe a middle ground to better balance the NBN cost with their plans.

  12. @ryan – Well bully for you. I live in a suburb of Wollongong, 3rd largest city in NSW. I have a Telstra copper cable installed. Have had it for 5 years. It can’t be connected to the local exchange “until someone in the area disconnects”. Meanwhile, we have to get by with a 3 mobile internet connection for our PC and laptops at home, and an Optus wireless phone setup (which is worse than third-world quality). High speed broadband is not just about being able to download movies and porn faster. Telstra is spruiking its T-Box on local TV. What a laugh it gives us locals. Telstra can’t even give us a phone connection. The anti-broadband whiners remind me of things said in the past. “It is an idle dream to imagine that automobiles will take the place of railways”, “Cigarettes will never become popular”, “Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote”, “While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially I consider it an impossibility”, and of course the most famous “640K ought to be enough for anybody” (Bill Gates 1981) and “There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home”. (Digital Corp. President 1977).

  14. I currently have more speed than I require and pay $50/month for 120GB. The first NBN plans would cost me more than double this for the same monthly data limit. I really can’t see the use in spending so much money for a network which will be so expensive to connect to.

  15. @ryan it isn’t about speed to homes as much as businesses, hospitals, universities and schools, and tt isn’t costing them 43 billion with the Telstra deal either. This country needs to get with the times, maybe we can have some real E-commerce. It’s about a strong network, speed is just one of the benefits.

  17. Well i’m pretty happy with my speed i’ve got, sure it could be faster but im not gonna jump through the ceiling if it does go faster. I would rather not spend 43billion on broadband when that money can be spent on health or education or even cops.

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