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Scammed again. For all the pre-election hype on internet access for regional Australia what have we got so far ?
The widely publicised release of souls regional adsl2 has not come to fruition. TPG merged with them soaked up the publicity for regional broadband and put the idea on the shelf where it remains. Heres hoping they get their act together but so far my research indicates that they are not willing to say a thing about it, like it never happened.
As of 04th Of July neither soul nor tpg are offering ADSL2.
There seems only one choice Bigpond. Bigponds adsl2 offerings are nothing to get excited about. Their excess fees are highway robbery in relation to other providers. The accounts they have with throttling (no excess fees, speed limited) only go up to 25G for a whopping $99/month.
Bigpond, also, has no VOIP service at all. Nice going for a telco to simply ignore the latest in telecommunications. Clearly their STD profits are just too good to let go of.
Bigpond only have half the upload speed offered by some smaller ISP's (annex M).
More importantly is service but oh I'm sorry you'll have to press 3 and hold for two hours until we can get an call center operator who cant tell a computer from a kettle to answer your call.
So again regional Australia pays more for less. "but it must cost more for rural services you may say". Well electrons or light dont actually charge us per kilometer and the infrastructure is already in the ground to carry them. So there goes that argument.
Of course the big promise for The Bega Valley from the winning party was the technology that Europe wishes it never touched and cant rid of quick enough WIMAX but I would settle for that. Has anybody seen it ?
Im sure they could get a great second hand deal on it so whats the hold up ?
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