Alston out of touch
Looks like the official jogger is still down. Good thing I installed this one!
Today when I was at school in the library, I was reading yesterday’s The Age newspaper when I came across this letter to the editor that I wrote:
Alston out of touch
Once again Senator Alston has totally missed the point.
In an interview on ABC television he explained that pornography is responsible for the take-up of broadband. I’ve had broadband for a year and a half and never even dreamt of looking up porn. I use it for communication and research.
After deciding that I wanted broadband in 1997, it was a three-year wait until I could get it. By which time I had moved houses in hope of getting cable, only to discover that Optus@Home didn’t service townhouses/apartments. Telstra wasn’t even trying to compete, with its measly 400kbps cap and its pricing. Eventually we found that we could get ADSL at twice the price of Optus and a fraction of the speed. That didn’t last long, with iPrimus essentially dropping out of the broadband game. Finally I was able to get Optus@Home at a different house, only to find 12 months later that I am about to go back on a Telstra-style cap.
Senator Alston later makes out that competition is the only solution. I don’t know where Senator Alston expects this competition to come from since he has let a big monster by the name of Telstra loose to do what it wants. The only solution is to split Telstra into two but he fails to see that.