<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">This is the third instance in a few weeks that I’ve seen the media reporting on groups or individuals incurring significant hassle and personal expense to compensate for the failure of the NBN to deliver an acceptable service.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The first was that guy on ABC 7.30 who gets his broadband access over WiFi tethering by winching a mobile phone in a zip-loc bag into the top of a tree outside his house. The second was that silly fairfax thing about the guy saying you could get faster-than-NBN services by bonding multiple NBN services (duh).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">None of this should be necessary. The fact that there are news articles about it is an indictment of comprehensive dismal failure.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> - mark</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 23, 2017, at 3:38 PM, Narelle <<a href="mailto:narellec@gmail.com" class="">narellec@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">[Just wondering who it was got the carrier license - N]</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">High speed internet for Queensland's Richmond graziers</div><div class="">ABC Rural By Eric Barker</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Posted Wed 21 Dec 2016, 9:40am</div><div class="">PHOTO: William Harrington from Harrington Systems Electronics and Olga Downs station, north of Richmond. (ABC Rural: Eric Barler)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">A new highspeed internet service will be switched on this week for some graziers and the local council in the Richmond area of north Queensland.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The service was setup by the Harrington family, who live at Olga Downs station about 50 kilometres north of town.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">William Harrington from Olga Downs said building a new internet service was a necessity for running his electronics company on the station.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">"We said we've got to do something about this and we decided to build a wireless link 46 kilometres long from Richmond to the station, just to be able to run our business," Mr Harrington said.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">He said although computing equipment was becoming less expensive the project would not be possible without a client as big as the Richmond Shire Council.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">"We've hooked into a fibre optic cable running from Townsville to Mount Isa and it's extremely expensive," he said.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">"It was cost prohibitive for us to do that by ourselves in a small town.</div><div class="">"So we've partnered with the local council to be able to do that and it's a winwin for both of us."</div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">etc from:</div><div class=""><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-12-21/high-speed-internet-for-richmond-graziers/8134462" class="">http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-12-21/high-speed-internet-for-richmond-graziers/8134462</a><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div>-- <br class=""><div class="gmail_signature"><br class=""><br class="">Narelle<br class=""><a href="mailto:narellec@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">narellec@gmail.com</a></div>
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