This week the ACT Liberal Senator distributed deliberately misleading political material to Gungahlin residents regarding Labor’s plan for a National Broadband Network.
The material distributed by the Liberal party shows no understanding of the specific difficulties Gungahlin residents have been faced with when trying to access broadband, including the limits on the number of broadband (ADSL) services that can be provided through RIMs and the ongoing problem of waiting lists.
In my recent Gungahlin Broadband Survey, 74 per cent of respondents reported that they are not satisfied with the broadband speeds currently available to them. Further, 64.4 per cent of respondents could only access speeds of up to 512kbps. This falls well short of Labor’s 12mbps guarantee.
For the past 11 years the Howard Government has sat on its hands and failed to improve broadband access for many Canberrans, including Gungahlin residents.
Now just weeks before the election, the Howard Government decides to pay misleading lip service to the needs of home-based business and residential users of broadband services. This is insulting to the people who have been tearing their hair out with frustration about lack of quality, affordable broadband for years.
In contrast, Labor’s fibre to the node network will finally fix Gungahlin residents broadband woes.
Labor’s National Broadband Network will:
- Provide fibre to the node access to 98% of Australians that will have deliver minimum speeds of 12 mbps;
- Provide a standard of service that is as close as possible to that offered by the new network to the remaining 2% of Australians;
- Give Australians in rural and regional Australia access to the best technologies available, unlike the Governments plan to deliver a two-tiered system where only those in the big cities will have access to fibre to node technology;
- Keep existing satellite subsidies, to ensure underserved areas receive broadband services.
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a more detailed analysis of Labor’s broadband plan and how the Liberals have tried to deceive Gungahlin residents follow this link: http://www.katelundy.com.au/truthaboutbroadband.htm
Contact: Rachel Allen 0418 488 295
