Comments on: Backhaul 101: Why It Matters

By: Mat

Mat — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:22:10 +0000

Don’t bother asking ‘how about ‘, first ask yourself whether you, your council or community actually bothered to put in a proposal for eligibility. I know that myself along with a large amount of other residents as well as our council all put in proposals for our town (Broken Hill, NSW) to be considered as we only have Telstra for backhaul, that is it, no one else just Telstra. All well and good to whinge about being left out, but unless you and your community actually put in a proposal for eligibility then you have no leg to stand on.

By: Matt

Matt — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:24:09 +0000

Random Dude, I’d hardly consider this announcement a copy of a major point of OPEL. They are both proposed solutions to a problem.

OPEL was canned for a reason and in my opinion, rightly so. If you recall there were some issues with probity and covereage for OPEL. OPEL also wasn’t providing real backhaul competition – just a 30% discount to the current price in regions which isn’t necessarily enough to spark competitive offerings. At least our government appears to be doing things correctly and openly this time which may end up bringing about a beneficial outcome for regional areas being addressed initially with backhaul capacity.

By: Rod

Rod — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 03:05:57 +0000

So Geraldton is getting cheap Backhaul! Now lets see how many ISP’s will provide services to all those towns along the 400km route to Geraldton! My guess is NONE!

By: Louis Rodriguez

Louis Rodriguez — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 01:52:32 +0000

oh, I don’t know, Random Dude. Look at it this way: the Liberals couldn’t get it done when they were in power (because of Labour?) but Labour is able to get it done (in spite of the Liberals?). What matters is it’s getting done and perhaps Telstra will no longer screw over Australia’s Internet services.

Now all we have to do is get rid of Fielding and his crap…

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 23:31:03 +0000

Thats great news, but what about blackspots in metro areas? This should be easy to fix?!

By: Kieran O'Rourke

Kieran O'Rourke — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:44:41 +0000

We have major backhaul issues in Port Lincoln SA as all of our Backhaul is via Microwave Link to Port Augusta. If they put decent backhaul from Port Augusta to Port Lincoln they will get three Major Regional Cities, also allowing alot of small towns along the way to be connected to the NBN with out huge cost.

By: Random Dude

Random Dude — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:36:40 +0000

Funny isn’t it how Labor canned the OPEL network yet now copies the major point of it – to create competitive regional backhaul.

By: Angus Kidman

Angus Kidman — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:33:58 +0000

As the article points out, these aren’t the only places to get enhancements — just the first.

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:55:57 +0000

And what happened to Mt Isa, the minister had previously mentioned Mt Isa by name as a targetted location, by now it’s not on the list Why not?

By: Evan

Evan — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:18:30 +0000

what about Mt. Gambier in S.A