Posted August 08, 2019
Recent events* have triggered my curiosity, so I would indulge any readers to post their internet connectivity. If you so desire, you may also wish to elucidate with costs.**
To wit: I have a contract for supply at speeds up to 20MBps, supplied with a land-line telephone, which includes free calls within the country. Unfortunately it also includes a limit of lust 10GB per month, but only costs A$50 per month. (Australia has had caps on data downloads for decades, unlike, say, the US, which I don't think has ever had a cap.) Most people will probably have unlimited download capacity, which is the real value added by the NBN.
Anyway, if you want to vent or brag, either about your fixed connection capacity or your mobile, I have conveniently provided a place for you, hereunder.
Ciao.
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*Others in the antipodes are acutely aware that Australia is currently building the National Broadband Network, wherein terameters of fibre-optic cable are being laid to connect the 25 million people living on the fringes of this vast continent.
Consequently, everyone will be changing their internet connectivity in this brief period (a couple of years). The project is rolling out what has been called "fibre to the node", which is distinct from the original plan to lay cable to each house ("fibre-to-the-home"), meaning that the cable terminates in the street and is connected to each dwelling via the existing telecommunications network (i.e., the copper wire that was integral to the telephone network).
Australia has a huge problem with providing basic communications to everyone at a price that anyone can afford, owing to her large distances and low (average) population density, city-slickers non obstat.
One of my requirements is a land-line telephone (something most people seem ambivalent about these days), so the packages available are less numerous.
** For the many people who signify a country other than their own, and who also wish to note their current expenses, might I suggest converting to the global reserve currency? No need for too much specificity, for example, the Australian dollar buys approximately 70 cents, and for other currencies it equates to about 60 centimes (euro) and 55 pence (sterling). (And about seven hundred New Zealand monopoly dollars —— no, only kidding, just about parity, c.$1.05.)
To wit: I have a contract for supply at speeds up to 20MBps, supplied with a land-line telephone, which includes free calls within the country. Unfortunately it also includes a limit of lust 10GB per month, but only costs A$50 per month. (Australia has had caps on data downloads for decades, unlike, say, the US, which I don't think has ever had a cap.) Most people will probably have unlimited download capacity, which is the real value added by the NBN.
Anyway, if you want to vent or brag, either about your fixed connection capacity or your mobile, I have conveniently provided a place for you, hereunder.
Ciao.
________
*Others in the antipodes are acutely aware that Australia is currently building the National Broadband Network, wherein terameters of fibre-optic cable are being laid to connect the 25 million people living on the fringes of this vast continent.
Consequently, everyone will be changing their internet connectivity in this brief period (a couple of years). The project is rolling out what has been called "fibre to the node", which is distinct from the original plan to lay cable to each house ("fibre-to-the-home"), meaning that the cable terminates in the street and is connected to each dwelling via the existing telecommunications network (i.e., the copper wire that was integral to the telephone network).
Australia has a huge problem with providing basic communications to everyone at a price that anyone can afford, owing to her large distances and low (average) population density, city-slickers non obstat.
One of my requirements is a land-line telephone (something most people seem ambivalent about these days), so the packages available are less numerous.
** For the many people who signify a country other than their own, and who also wish to note their current expenses, might I suggest converting to the global reserve currency? No need for too much specificity, for example, the Australian dollar buys approximately 70 cents, and for other currencies it equates to about 60 centimes (euro) and 55 pence (sterling). (And about seven hundred New Zealand monopoly dollars —— no, only kidding, just about parity, c.$1.05.)
