Thread: Australia, a third world country.

I didnt realise once the nbn had been connected at home that we could be so vulnerable to loss of communication.

I'm wondering if somehow an emergency contingency system could be put in place.

I have since resurrected an older am transistor radio for that reason and recently have used candles during power outage.

The actual incommunicado flowon is quite high as you cant communicate outwards neither can your friends or loved ones communicate inwards so the problem exascerbates manyfold.

And with the future climate outlook for more intense storms...vis power outages....things don't look like improving.

Your cb radio may be of assistance but has limited range.

Back to the 1950's , no phone , bring out the kero or metho stove and light candles......sounds old but whats the alternative when the system breaks down?

We elected to retain our copper wire phone connection when going wireless NBN because we didn't want to loose the phone if/when the wireless went down.

We didn’t have a choice to keep our old land line.

We were informed that we had to change over to the NBN, and we had a set time period to do so, because the old system is to be turned off.

So we were forced to go from an old, reliable and proven system to crap!

What I cannot understand is why the media is not making a BIG story about the problems the new communication system is suffering from?

Australia has thrid world infrastructure.....

I thought we all know that

Just imagine twenty years later who would want to do business here? Terrible internet (yes I mean NBN) plus "quirky" power supply, still using wooden power poles.

Originally Posted by laney

I think the mods will say this thread is political and will with draw it I believe even if it is its a good talking point things are only going to get worse for us all if we go renewable energy the phones and Internet down will be the least of our problems.

at this point it is appears it is still "topical" not 'political" but experience shows us that someone eventually wont be able to help themselves and the mods will be forced to act, sadly

more than happy to let it run while it stays 'topical'

cheers

Originally Posted by drivesafe

We didn’t have a choice to keep our old land line.

been my experience that once NBN becomes available they impose a sunset date.

What I cannot understand is why the media is not making a BIG story about the problems the new communication system is suffering from?

because the major player is complicit.

as soon as the NBN was announced for the first trial installs etc the biggest media player in AU headed to the other side of the house, as they promised to 'fix' it as it was obvious that it would imperil many of their products.

we have third world infrastructure and third world laws.

sadly them little green boxes that now litter the neighborhoods need power to work and unless your on the same grid as a local hospital or some other important infrastructure your going to lose communications just like we used to on a regular basis in the bad old days of the copper wire telephone only based system. ask a few old fortitude valley based businesses how long they were offline when things went wrong back then, weeks upon weeks and sometimes months.

while what we have now isn't ideal, to be frank, it is way better than it was even 40 years ago.... when telegrams were as close as you got to instant communications for the vast majority of the population.

IMHO

Just think, eventually someone will figger out that you can put solar panels on phone towers and also the power pole feeding the little green boxes. Just like country automatic phone exchanges used to be powered. I've still got a few retired Telecom Australia panels feeding my battery bank at home.

Originally Posted by incisor

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while what we have now isn't ideal, to be frank, it is way better than it was even 40 years ago.... when telegrams were as close as you got to instant communications for the vast majority of the population.

IMHO

And that is the truth, How quickly we forget !

When I started in Telecom in 1981 business still had Telex machines which spit out ribbons of punched paper.