Seven percent of Australians live in remote or rural areas. In these far-flung locations, the NBN’s fibre footprint runs shorts. Instead, fixed wireless or internet from satellite will be the services offered. But are they second-rate?
Urban regions connected via the fibre networks of the NBN are expected to enjoy up to 100mpbs download speeds, a far cry from the 12mpbs rural clients will be getting via satellite or fixed wireless. The disparity in download and uploads speeds have compelled local officials affected by the fibre connection cut-off to say, “unfair”.
Town mayors across the remote areas down under are complaining that the satellite or fixed-wireless service will not be able to support the more bandwidth-intensive applications their communities require. Applications like tele-health and online education may suffer latency issues under the proposed non-fibre solutions by the NBN.
In fact, many other residents of remote Australian town are pointing out the NBN’s design flaw. The company has not included the millions of Australian citizens, as well as tourists, who head towards the outback, and move to different rural locations several times a year, in its broadband project.
The question being raised now: Are rural Australian residents any less important than those residing in the cities?
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