When all this settles down there should be either an Inquiry or Royal Commission about communications in Australia. How can a system fall over as it did in the Northern Rivers?
Thanks, Malcolm Turnbull for implementing an inferior NBN service that should have been WiFi not cable. I can’t recall how many billions of dollars this cost but surely we have to face up to the fact we need a system that works during disasters.
Telstra can apologise as much as they like, but it means nothing because with their logic it will happen again and again. The only media outlets that have focused on this as a real issue were ABC 94.5 and Today Channel 9. Where are all the media?


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