In 2009 in one of supposedly the most 'developed' countries in the world, Australia is lagging behind in the Telecommunications arena.The public are being wooed by companies and governments with terms live eco-friendly, solar electricity, etc.
New modern homes have options like c-bus (home automation), solar electricity (which is useless in the less sunny areas like Victoria and Tasmania, Water storage tanks (which has come too late and should have been implemented in the 1960's), BUT lack one of the most fore granted technologies, the INTERNET.
In a political move, Telstra is DELIBERATELY not installing enough telephony equipment in the exchanges to cater for new homes to be connected via the telephone line (copper) for ADSL technology.
This is a deliberate move to force customers to use more expensive (usually 2 or 3 times more, for the same amount of data) options, i.e. cable or wireless broadband.
This practice has been going on for over 15 years and NO Australian consumer watchdog (ACCC) NOR the telecoms ombudsmand has done anything about it.
Telstra is an Australian Telecommunications equipment monopoly, as a result Australia has one of the world most expensive telecommunications tariffs.
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