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Australia's technological future under the newly elected government...

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By the looks of the latest polls the Australian public has decided to elect a new government, with Tony Abbott becoming the new face of Australian politics. I think it's fair to say that both candidates were pretty lousy, but I would have preferred Rudd if only for a few reasons. Australia will now lose the NBN (National Broadband Network) as Tony Abbott and his party believe that 25Mb/s is fast enough for Australians (Not to mention that this speed won't be available until 2016!  :angry:).  Australia was already lagging behind,  the 'Australia tax' making the purchase of anything in Australia that has to be imported incredibly expensive. Obviously this is a rant, Australia will continue to  lag behind the rest of the world in terms of broadband speed for many years in seems. Canada is looking rather inviting at the moment @LinusTech  <_<. Any Australians wanting to share their thoughts feel free, even if you're not from Australia... Would you be happy if these new policies were being introduced in your country?


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Nah, they're not doing the internet filter anymore. They're only encouraging and providing parents with software to block inappropriate sites. Only upset about the NBN though ... it's not cost effective to do FTTN. FTTP would've been so much better for us for like the next 100 years. Copper's gonna be shitty in like 10 more years ... and the cost to replace it will be a waste as it could've gone into fibre optic.

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This is a sad day for Australian technology. I have three more things to say;

1. I want to bitch slap Tony Abott for his statement about 25Mb/s and it costing $2500 to connect

2. I will likely have to move overseas to study

3. Calling up and asking for my filter to be removed so that I can watch porn is going to be kinda awkward...

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Well, in my country every politician and everything about politicy is shit but no one messes with our internet. they can steal money from other parts :P

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Nah, they're not doing the internet filter anymore. They're only encouraging and providing parents with software to block inappropriate sites. Only upset about the NBN though ... it's not cost effective to do FTTN. FTTP would've been so much better for us for like the next 100 years. Copper's gonna be shitty in like 10 more years ... and the cost to replace it will be a waste as it could've gone into fibre optic.

 

Thanks for the update, I'll remove the part about the filter now.

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This is a sad day for Australian technology. I have three more things to say;

1. I want to bitch slap Tony Abott for his statement about 25Mb/s and it costing $2500 to connect

2. I will likely have to move overseas to study

3. Calling up and asking for my filter to be removed so that I can watch porn is going to be kinda awkward...

 

I FORGOT ABOUT THE CONNECTION FEE! - Post has been updated.   :angry:

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Apparently if you are watching it, they said they are not interested in scrapping it but bringing it to everyone quicker (I'm happy with that as i have shit internet)

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Apparently if you are watching it, they said they are not interested in scrapping it but bringing it to everyone quicker (I'm happy with that as i have shit internet)

 

Well if that's the case then it must have happened in the last 5 minutes, I will go and update myself now.

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Well if that's the case then it must have happened in the last 5 minutes, I will go and update myself now.

Yer it was channel 10. 

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Source: http://www.liberal.org.au/fast-broadband-and-affordable-nbn @JoshM

 

 

 

"The Coalition will deliver fast, affordable and reliable broadband years sooner than labor. Our aim is that everyone in the nation should have access to broadband with download data rates of between 25 and 100 megabits per second by 2016, and between 50 and 100 megabits per second by the end of 2019 in 90 per cent of the fixed line footprint – although it should be noted this goal in part depends on NBN Co delivering its current satellite and fixed wireless solutions on time and on budget."

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And I was told that the UK was behind slightly....

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Yay now Australia has a useless leader just like us in NZ!

 

I now share your pain sir.  :unsure:

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And I was told that the UK was behind slightly....

UK is a dream compared to AUS

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I just want decent internet and can live with it at 25m, i need more of it

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I just want decent internet and can live with it at 25m, i need more of it

 

I could live with 25Mb/s too currently... It would be amazing, but not 3 years... I'm currently lucky to get above 2Mb/s down on anything, and my old house was less then half the speed of that and I was only 20 minutes from the city!  :(

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i already have 30Mb/s down and i need more, LNP nbn is trash and this country disgusts me

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UK is a dream compared to AUS

Yeah... It must suck for you guys.

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i already have 30Mb/s down and i need more, LNP nbn is trash and this country disgusts me

 

Lucky.  -_-

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Yer my speed isn't too bad i just have so little of it. 

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#RIPFibreandafreeinternet2013
I'll just suffer my $99 a month for 4-8mbps 

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i already have 30Mb/s down and i need more, LNP nbn is trash and this country disgusts me

So selfish ;)

I have 1Mb/s down.... care to share?

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I think I am going to steal an Asylum seeker boat from the shores and go float over to America or Canada, but the internet really for me I have for as long as I have known our internet speed (4 years ago-ish) have been living with 300kbp/s connection and 25 Mbp's is a big jump but it is lagging sooooooooooooooooo, far behind any other first world country and it really pisses me off that the Australian government doesn't understand today's technological needs.

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#RIPFibreandafreeinternet2013

I'll just suffer my $99 a month for 4-8mbps 

 

Much better than a $2500 connection fee for internet that is already slower than the rest of the world

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Mind bringing a few of the rest of us with you on that boat of yours? :P

Look if they can cram on over 100 people I don't see what the problem is with a few extras

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