[plug] Bloody Telstra

[Alex Polglaze]

W.Kenworthy wrote:
> Cable penetration in Perth is quite low. Even Shepperton Road which is
> near inner city lost its cable some time back when power went
> underground.  So we need satellite for foxtel.  Cable looks like its for
> inner Melbourne/Sydney and few other select areas only.
> 
> I think the near future might be WiFi meshes if roaming/coverage can be
> sorted out.  Perhaps the Perth FreeNet might form the core of something
> like this ...

Telstra was doing some major work on our aging copper a couple of months ago. I actually 
thought that they were finally putting in fibre optic, so I asked the installers.

Their response almost floored me.

He said that we would never get fibre optic here as Telstra had basically stopped rolling 
it out and everything would be going wireless.

Alex