mariacostel wrote on Dec 9
th, 2015 at 7:36am:
And also, how are small businesses operating without fibre? And yet, amazingly they manage to do this very well.
Telehealth is being used now.
PROVE IT
With fibre and hires video it will be even better.
The businesses that use telepresence are the big businesses! But it could be extended to the PS and small business. Imagine the in-home demos or fault finding/fixing that could be done without a technician ever leaving the business.
Yep... come and fix my fridge via webcam. They could do that now except no one does.
When they ran out the electrical network it was just to light homes. But once electricity was there electric vacuum cleaners, refrigerators, radios and other entertainment and labor saving devices soon appeared and their number now is huge. TVs appeared then PCs.
When the copper CAN was rolled out in the 50s it was just for voice. Fax then the internet started to use the CAN and it is now groaning under the strain. Now we have Netflix and other VOD providers daily signing up more customers, all trying to use the rotten, too–thin copper.
Longy, just sit back, think of what you do now and try and imagine doing all this on dial up. With the ever-increasing rollout of FTTH content will be put on websites that we won’t be able to download.
Then comes the next big use of communications—and we will be stuffed because we do not have a national broadband network worthy of the name.
Malcolm’s idiotic CBA is ALREADY outdated with the arrival of Netflix. Then 3D TV and 4 and 8K TV starts being broadcast over our pathetic mishmash of obsolete crap.