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The plan for nationwide fiber internet might be upended for Starlink (www.theverge.com)
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[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 15 points 4 days ago (2 children)

If your nationwide fibre internet plan rollout was even half as bungled and bullshit as ours here in Australia, it must be a shitshow. It was used as a political pawn, with one party wanting to NOT finish it so they could use it to help get them re-elected endlessly, and the other party opposing it because it wasn't their idea, and pushing an alternative terrible plan that was far slower and far more expensive in the long term. In the end we got a terrible mix of both.

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I don't recall labor not wanting to finish it? My recollection was that it was the libs not wanting to go through with it and that's how we got fibre to the node after they were elected.

I get that running fibre all the way to every premises in rural areas like Alice Springs would have been ridiculous though.

[–] FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Labor could have finished it easily if they wanted to, but they dragged their butts because they knew it was a vote winner. Just like almost every big issue, they never want to actually implement it fully because they want to continue using it to get re-elected.

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 days ago

Interesting, I had a lot of other things going on at the time so didn't follow the issue as close as I would now. At least we're finally getting FTTN transitioning to FTTP at the moment, 10 years too late.

Here I am WFH just fine on a 25/8 Mbps 4G cellular internet connection though. I do wish I had better connection but unfortunately not possible in my situation.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

We've already given telecoms well over $100 billion, over the last 25 years, and they've done fuck all