Doing well Malcolm. Doing well. >:(
<http://www.bendigoadvertiser.com.au/story/4496678/sky-muster-satellites-national-outage/?cs=2452>
Just hours before the Interim Satellite Service was due to be switched
off and decommissioned, its replacement, the Sky Muster Long Term
Satellite Service began experiencing a national network outage.
The Better Internet for Rural Regional and Remote Australia Facebook
page was broadcasting the news late on Monday afternoon, sharing a
notice from Activ8me Customer Care, which said all Sky Muster services
were unable to connect to the internet.
“This outage will also affect VoIP services connected via Sky Muster,”
it went on to say, noting that while nbn co was working to restore
services as quickly as possible, “no ETA is currently known”.
This was followed up with an official notification from nbn co, issued
at 6.44pm AEDT, saying the incident was national, affecting all beams.
The next update was due at 8.10pm.
BIRRR founder Kristy Sparrow said it was ironic that the only
satellite internet users able to connect to the internet were people
who hadn’t migrated across to Sky Muster, touted as a greatly superior
service for rural and remote people.
Along with other tongue-in-cheek comments on the BIRRR page made by
people still able to access the internet via mobile broadband, Kristy
said she hoped the people in charge hadn’t turned off the wrong satellite.
SkyMesh CEO Paul Rees was quoted as saying, “We’re not sure if they
mixed Sky Muster up with the Interim Satellite Service which is due to
be turned off tomorrow night, but we have asked them to turn Sky
Muster back on please”.
On a serious note, Kristy said the loss of internet services for
thousands of rural people was exactly why landlines needed to be kept.
She was referring to the Productivity Commission recommendation to
remove the mandate for every household to have a telephone landline,
which would mean voice services would be delivered via satellite for
users in rural and remote Australia.
“It’s not reliable technology,” she said.
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