In "Three charts on: the NBN and Australia’s digital divide",
researchers Schram, Baum, Fisher, Harris, Friel and Frereman show that
socio-economic disadvantaged areas of Australia have been missing out on
the faster fiber National Broadband Network (The Conversation, June 21,
2017):
https://theconversation.com/three-charts-on-the-nbn-and-australias-digital-divide-78911
However, why this may be the case: deliberate discrimination by NBN Co.,
an effect of the technology, or the way the existing infrastructure was
built, the authors do not mention. Perhaps this will be in the peer
reviewed publication of the research to come.
ps: This is not quite the broadband for social good which Roger Clarke
and I envisioned in 1994: http://www.tomw.net.au/nt/vision.html
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