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The Truth about Broadband:

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

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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

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Gungahlin Survey Results In!

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23 November 2006 - Survey results: Gungahlin residents still waiting for Broadband


Media Release: 
1 August 2006 - Gungahlin residents still missing out on broadband technology

 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 suburbsFast 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. 

Media Release  3 May 2003 - Senator Lundy launches Broadband Survey for Gungahlin and Dunlop
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.

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Other media releases:

bullet20 September 2007 - Desperate Liberals misleads Gungahlin Residents on Broadband
bullet 20 June 2005 - Telstra's padlock tactic locks up Gungahlin broadband
bullet7 September 2004 - Humphries finally discovers Gungahlin
bullet20 May 2004 - Gungahlin, Dunlop residents force communications improvements
bullet 26 February 2004 - Broadband Country-City Divide Widens
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28 October 2003 - Telstra still deploying broadband-blocking technology

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25 June 2003 - Gungahlin telephony moves from backwater to average

bullet 23 June 2003 - Labor initiates broadband Inquiry
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30 May 2003 - Gungahlin yet to emerge from broadband backwater

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3 May 2003 - Senator Lundy launches Broadband Survey for Gungahlin and Dunlop

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