The Communications Department has released a My Broadband website that purports to show what broadband is available at the address level. From the article: http://www.theage.com.au/it-pro/government-it/broadband-availability-report-released-20140220-hvd6v.html
The federal government has released a report and website showing the quality and availability of broadband services across Australia in an effort to demonstrate how it will prioritise the national broadband network rollout. The Broadband Availability and Quality Report and MyBroadband website compare broadband quality and availability at homes and businesses in more than 78,000 local areas. The website allows people to search broadband availability and quality by address and lists services to the area, such as whether a fibre, fibre to the node, ADSL or other service is available to a consumer. Its release was foreshadowed by Fairfax Media on Tuesday and is based on maps provided by telcos to the Coalition shortly after it came to power. Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull said the report shows there are up to 1.6 million premises throughout Australia which have either no broadband or very poor broadband connectivity, with peak median download speeds of less than 4.8 megabits per second. NBN Co, the company rolling out the national broadband network, would make use of the report to prioritise the rollout of the Coalition's national broadband network where "logistically and commercially feasible", Mr Turnbull said at a press conference in Sydney on Thursday. "If you are going to rollout a national broadband network today and upgrade peoples' broadband services, obviously you should aim wherever possible to target and prioritise those people who have the worst broadband," Mr Turnbull said. "What we're launching today ... will enable Australians to see how their neighbourhood rates in terms of internet connectivity." --------------------- The problem is, when you use the website, there is so much drivel about how inaccurate the information is, it's practically useless. The comments that follow the story, from actual people, show how unreliable this information is. At least he tried, I guess. Pity it is so wrong. Jan Melbourne, Victoria, Australia [email protected] Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space between here and there? It's yours. Seize your space. ~Margaret Atwood, writer _ __________________ _ _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
