Telstra Basher

It is indeed interesting to be able to publicly comment on Government policy or (in)action. The so called digital economy blurb on the 'information' pages of this blog site say that having the populous needs broadband internet. That's great, citing income-access stats and all manner of other statistical bumpf doesn't give any comfort to me at all in the broadband stakes.

Until the Government makes Tesltra answerable to the public as the major shareholder about providing BB I just laugh at the whole idea of a digital economy.

Take my situation. Built brand new house in a new housing estate, can't even get broadnband on my Telstra line because Telstra installed crummy lines and hasn't got a planning deprtment astute enough to make sure enough ports or DSlams are available.

Any idiot can get info on where development is going to take place, why can't Telstra plan for the future? I have tried four times to get BB on my phone line - NO luck.

So I'm typing this from my laptop on the train to work using my OPTUS wireless BB connection. Ministers of any flavour over the past that many years are to blame for this, sad thing is no blog like this will have any effect on changing any topic raised by the public, it is just a device to be seen to be "consulting" with the public.