[Tuddy200]

I work for an employment agency/training centre and we have many "public access" PC's for students or jobseekers to use to further themselves.

We are scattered throughout regional Victoria, and I am forever hearing complaints from these jobseekers/students that they are wasting time sitting, waiting for jobs to load, of research and yet they do not understand it's the fastest internet you can get in the area unless your paying tad over $20,000 per month and still not be anywhere near NBN speeds.

Now, you can imagine this for our staff who are using it on Telstra Business DSL because they need the upload speed and we get max 10MB/10MB but for $5000 per month with a site for 4 people!

The fact is we are also required to use government systems to upload data of jobseekers and students to respective agenies and half the day is spent waiting for data to be uploaded or downloaded, so I see this as a step in the right direction.

Roads are mainly state funded, rail are state funded, the health system, policing, emergency services, all state funded.... now the Federal government are giving them something that can improve all those services, maybe not directly like you downloading statistics on how much carbon I am breathing out but indirectly like better emergency warning systems, less overhead cableing (ie. poles for drivers to hit).

Yes, NBN Co. will buy Telstra's fibre instructure and with that money Telstra will only basically have thier wireless network to look after, so Telstra coverage is only going to get better and better as well. Our mobile staff use Telstra modems fairly well in remote areas 2-3 hours out of Ballarat or Bendigo. Imagine this for a health professional who comes to you is able to hook up into system and talk to a specialist without you travelling 4 hours there then back!

Outside the square people! There are much more benifits as well, but most won't listen.