Senator Conroy today announced that the government would be spending $23.5 million to develop NBN hubs in first and second release sites to raise “knowledge, awareness and access” to the new fibre network.
The hubs will be built at the 40 first and second release sites across the country, and will house networked terminals so residents can experience the benefits of the NBN before they sign up for NBN services themselves. It’s an effort to try and counter some of the scepticism and apathy certain members of the community feel towards the national broadband scheme.
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wsDK_II
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 3:26 PMso we are spending 23 million to get people to ‘like’ a network that they will have no choice in using?
hmmm, when can we vote again?
Awnshegh
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 4:38 PMRemember they may have no choice in a few years time but with only a modest percentage signing up initially it’s clear that people are unaware of the long term implications of saying no. I hate goverment PSAs but in this case unless people are educated we’ll find many dwellings having no phone or internet connection once the current system is decommissioned.
maddogeco
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 4:04 PMdont bother just get the network into there homes sooner they will thank you later.
opting out of the nbn is very selfish, what if you move and the new owners waant the nbn i bet it will come out of there pocket to have in installed, it will only take 2 months and 4 trees worth of paper work.
attila
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 4:29 PMHeh, even Giz can’t work up much of their usual NBN cheerleading for this one.
Grant
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 4:53 PMWhy all the haters? what would you prefer? nothing… pffft
Triksta
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 5:19 PMhow about they give me adsl first. unless they want to pipe the first Queensland regional service straight to my house! But I don’t have an independent for my representative.
Lordwooof
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 6:08 PMNBN haters may as well join all their anti-environment buddies down at the pub to celebrate killing ANY forward thinking in this country.
Why is it so hard for people to see that sometimes it is a good thing to try and lead other world nations in something?
The arguments seem to always be “we shouldn’t spend all this money on the NBN because only a few other countries have this kind of tech” or “we can’t actually do anything about global warming because America and China have said they aren’t going to do stuff either”
I’m sick of this stupidity.
Politicians should all just DIE.
They’d be more useful then.
lolstupid
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 11:37 PM“I’m sick of all this stupidity.
Politicians should all just DIE.”
Stupid is having an emotional response to someone elses opinion and calling it stupid because it doesn’t agree with yours.
chris
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 9:18 PMi still can’t believe how quick they actually got to work on the NBN after the election… its actually happening!
Spend the money you gotta spend as long as you get it to my household soon! hopefully i’m near one of these hubs so they can.. umm.. fix my skeptisism towards the NBN :P
and to all you haters shut-up or GTFO
brendan.Adams
Tuesday, May 31, 2011 at 11:50 PMI’d settle for ADSL 1 first. I have to use nextg and the 12gb is up in the first week every month. 2/3 of my data is telstra’s overhead on the poor connection but i have to pay for it.
The worst thing is that I still don’t get a solution until everyone that already has adsl 2+ gets fibre.
Here’s an idea, roll out the NBN to those areas that have poor or no broadband services FIRST. you’ll get near to 100% uptake.
Taufiq
Wednesday, June 1, 2011 at 10:42 AMCan someone explain to me why they don’t want super fast internet? I’m all for NBN…