The Howard Government has been distributing misleading material about Labor’s National Broadband Plan. To find out the truth about the future of broadband in Australia please follow this link: The Truth about Broadband
Government Technology World – Keynote Address, National Convention Centre
Of all of the experiences we share through our personal and professional loves, change is a constant. While a well worn cliché, this is felt in sharpest relief in relation to the ongoing pace of technological change.
Just think, only eleven years ago, when I was first elected to represent the ACT in the Senate, I had to organise a special phone line to my office in Parliament house just to get access to the internet.
There was a committed and growing proportion of the population who were on line and even back then very frustrated. It was the basic service standards such as dial up speeds and drop outs. For many small businesses the price of Telstra’s ISDN put faster, more reliable internet connections out of reach.
To read more follow this link: Government Technology World
Gungahlin Survey Results In!
Go to this Media Release
Go to www.gcc.asn.au for the latest attempt to survey for broadband problems in Gungahlin
Gungahlin and Dunlop residents in the ACT are angry and frustrated with telecommunications companies about the lack of affordable broadband internet services and poor mobile coverage in their suburbs. Fast growing outer metropolitan suburbs like Dunlop and Gungahlin have become a digital backwater under Coalition communications and competition policies and Telstra’s cost-cutting.
This survey is designed to demonstrate the high demand for these services and put even greater pressure on telco’s to invest your area. Please fill it out and return it to my office via email, fax or mail.
Please note that we will not include your name or street number when advising telecommunications companies where there is demand. The telco’s have their own processes for registering interest and I urge you to use them.
