Northern Development

[poddster]

http://www.news.com.au/national-news/federal-election/coalition-wants-northern-australia-to-be-an-en...

The proposal has by far more merit than the NBN white elephant

[lakeland27]

the NBN proposal doesn't seek to tow icebergs north. this easily makes it less of a joke than this proposal that has been around for 30 years and deemed unworkable for 30 years. 🙂

[silverfaun]

Vision, now where has that been for the last 6 years? Oh I know, cowering from the massive debt of the NBN which is crowding out all other projects, squashing & mashing anything that's stands in its way, that's where vision has been.

Time to go, go North maties.

[meh_too]

"I don't do norf"   quote of the year on Eastenders, by Shirley  🙂 

I am still pmsl  over it..........

[catsnknots]

Great idea... there is a population up North that is screaming out for jobs, jobs, jobs.... 

with areas of unemployment of around 10% we all hope that this will help create a future for our kids and hope that they no longer need to leave their hometowns at 18 yr old to go and live in a big city... away from support and guidance of people that love them and will miss them dearly. 

[poddster]

the NBN proposal doesn't seek to tow icebergs north.

But it seeks to attach "string" to 90 % of Australians at a massive cost weather they want to be attached or not.

[freakiness]

Lucky we're getting fibre not string then.

You do know that 95% of content is downloaded via the fixed line network?

[poddster]

Now where did you get the 95% figure?

[freakiness]

Now where did you get the 95% figure?

ABS

Data downloaded by fixed-line broadband accounted for 95 per cent of total data download volume.

Further information is available in Internet Activity, Australia, December 2012 (cat. no. 8153.0).