The ever laid back Nats MP Luke Hartsuyker told The Coffs Coast
Advocate this month that "We're
not in fantasy land, a dream sci-fi world. We have to deliver affordable
broadband to people quickly" and the cost of bringing fast
broadband into the house will be "addressed
as time went by".
Come again?
Labor will give me free fast
broadband connection into my house by 2021.
Luke will give me slower
broadband to a junction box somewhere into my street by 2019 and I will have to
pay for every metre of cable laid from that box into my house.
If - and it’s a big if – I can
afford it.
And if I move house I bet I’ll
be paying again under Luke’s plan.
So till the day I win Lotto
Luke expects me to get his broadband to my PC via Telstra’s 100 year-old copper
wire phone network which in 2003 even that telco said was within "five
minutes to midnight" of its deathbed.
I could almost hear fellow voters
falling off their chairs when they read Hartsuyker’s comments.
No wonder many techies fell
about laughing when he said the Coalition broadband scheme was a win
for regional areas. They know
that sending broadband to a computer along old copper wire will never give the fast
download speeds of fibre optic cable.
What Hartsuyker is really offering the North Coast is a
souped up version of this:
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