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Article #376Re: Metropolitan Broadband Blackspots Program
From: Firefly
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:11
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:11
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<twgg@tomw.net.au> wrote in message news:1125270576.114151.227510@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com... > The Australian Computer Society (ACS) has been invited to comment on > the Australian Government's Metropolitan Broadband Blackspots Program > (MBBP). The program is being launched in early 2006, with $50 million > to provide reasonably priced broadband Internet services to customers > in metropolitan areas who are currently unable to access them. > > ACS members are invited to provide input for the response being > prepared by the ACS's Communications Technologies Board. Members can > discuss the issue in the ACS's "General" forum under the topic > "Broadband Policy". > > In its commentary on the 2005-06 Budget, the ACS welcomed the > Metropolitan Broadband Blackspots Program, but reminded the Government > that 256Kbp/s ADSL is not "true broadband". Who said that 256kbits/s ADSL is not broadband? I'd like to see some proof of that.
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X-Google-Thread: f5d9f,2b3b197bfc5130b8 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5d9f,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit From: "Firefly" <trolls.suck@aus.tv.com> Newsgroups: aus.org.acs References: <1125270576.114151.227510@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> Subject: Re: Metropolitan Broadband Blackspots Program Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 02:11:50 +1000 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2670 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2670 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original Lines: 22 Message-ID: <431333c6$0$39179$c30e37c6@ken-reader.news.telstra.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 220.233.8.242 X-Trace: 1125331910 ken-reader.news.telstra.net 39179 220.233.8.242 Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news4.google.com!news.glorb.com!nntp.waia.asn.au!203.7.224.70.MISMATCH!news.highway1.com.au!lon-transit.news.telstra.net!news.telstra.net!lon-spool.news.telstra.net!reader.news.telstra.net!not-for-mail