Is Brodbland Policy Flawed?

[White Indigene]

Perhaps the Broadband demand, or at least the calls for broadband, arent really necassary.

For example, most Telstra techies acknowledge that the real problem is the 'last mile'; that last bit of cabling that connects households to the net nodes. It seems to me that the speed currently in place is overall, satisfactory. Although I admit some areas are supplied by a greater than normal supply of internet access.

But consider this, if the current speed is satisfactory for use, and most of the use is general use, what benefit is really going to be gained by broadening the access? And what too, is the overall cost benefits/losses to be gained/lost?

I reckon, the only benefits are going to be to those with already high access, because they will be able to gather online doing video-conferencing and whatnot, cyber gathering and doing the usual bureaucratic functions.

The benefit to the average household will be nought, while they pay even 'more', for the usuall 'less'. The temptation will be for web-casters and media sites and so-on to blast the network with worthless moving images which soak up mega-space, slow down domestic computer usage and frustrate Mr Average. And for this, he has to pay money.

nine.msn is a classic example, it uses so much junk on its home page, you cant even see anything, its a jumble of colour, objects and moving image- contrast this with google, and you see the point entirely.

I think Government should look at the last mile, web use in general, and consider the costs to the average households in comparison with the major gains those in bureaucracy are certain to get get from Broadband.

Whilst households will gain nothing.

[White Indigene]

The policy is befitting of some sort of two-tiered system, which sounds alot like this:-

'And the Records Department, after all, was itself only a single branch of the Ministry of Truth, whose primary job was not to reconstruct the past but to supply the citizens of Oceania with newspapers, films, textbooks, telescreen programmes, plays, novels-with every conceivable kind of information, instruction or entertainment, from a statute to a slogan, from a lyric poem to a biological treatise, and from a childs spelling book to a New-speak dictionary. And the Ministry had not only to supply the multifarious needs of the Party, but also to repeat the whole operation at a lower level for the benefit of the proletariat. There was a whole chain of seperate departments dealing with proletarian literature, music, drama and entertainment generally. Here were reproduced rubbishy newspapers containing almost nothing except sport, crime and astrology, sensational five-cent novellettes, films oozing sex, with sentimental songs which were composed entirely by mechanical means....'

[White Indigene]

Quote:-

"The Australian Bureau of Statistics has released is latest update of broadband statistics. Surprisingly they show that Australians downloaded less data in the quarter to June 2008 than six months earlier."

http://www.itwire.com/content/view/20767/127/