NBN Co demo truck hits Tasmania
- 29 November, 2011 11:49
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NBN Co’s demonstration truck has begun its nationwide journey in Tasmania this week, with the 23-tonne mobile ‘discovery centre’ having arrived in Devonport yesterday.
The truck, which is fitted with high-definition screens, cameras and audio equipment, will enable residents to get a ‘hands on’ experience learning about the National Broadband Network (NBN) — how it works and how it can benefit them.
The mayor of Devonport, Steve Martin, welcomed its arrival.
“There is a real appetite for more information about the NBN in the local community,” he said in a statement.
“For me, I expect the NBN will help to close the gap between the services we can access here in Devonport and those that people in major metropolitan centres experience.”
General manager of demonstration facilities, Cassandra Hayes, said the tour was in response to the demand from people wanting to learn more about the NBN.
“We receive thousands of emails and calls each week from individuals, businesses and local councils asking when the NBN is coming to their area, and wanting to know how it works, what they can use it for and how to get connected,” she said in a statement.
“The demo truck makes it possible for people to experience for themselves some of the applications in education, health and business that can be delivered over the NBN.”
Residents in towns from Devonport to Deloraine and Georgetown to Triabunna will be the first in Australia to receive the interactive learning opportunity.
The truck will undertake a three-month, 27-site tour of Tasmania, finishing in Smithton in February 2012, and is expected to visit more than 100 towns across Australia in the next 12 months.
The demo truck was unveiled last week as part of NBN Co’s new operations and demonstrations facilities, launched by communications minister, Senator Stephen Conroy, in Melbourne’s Docklands.
The broadband wholesaler is also expected to publish its Standard Form of Access Agreement tomorrow.
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Comments
Gordon
I love the irony. A MOBILE "discovery centre" to show people the benefits of high-speed FIXED LINE broadband. I wonder how they connect it to the NBN?
UMM
I love the irony and stupidity. What do you think connects MOBILE towers, play doh?
Kip
I love the irony and stupidity and the attempt to be sarcastic umm. But of course even you would realize laying the hard material at the expense they are laying it is almost automatically equal to throwing money into a toilet and flushing it. Wireless and emerging technologies are growing so fast the proposed fibre network is not only pointless but brain less and prehistoric. We don't need a focus on laying the cable we need a focus on the emerging technologies Gordon may or may not be alluding to!
K Deem
@3 "Wireless and emerging technologies are growing so fast ".
really so faster than light comms is just around the corner is it?
(sigh) at least attempt to realise what does what and how, and to what degree.
Wireless is a tech that works with/ and along side fixed and as for emerging tech, so everyone is to wait just in case quantum entanglement gets online.
Thats the whole F-ing problem Australia has been waiting around for the last 15 years hoping to get increase bandwidth, but history clearly shows what a complete balls up that approach was.
gnome
@4 K Deem, if @3 knew more than the political script that somebody handed them, they would understand the basic aspects of radiophysics which define available spectrum capacity.
We are already seeing congestion at peak usage times on the networks, so it will be clear to everybody except the political class that a wireless-based national network will never be the answer.
User numbers in wireless and emerging technologies (whatever that means in this context) have grown quickly , but there is not going to be some wonderful but as-yet unrevealed wireless network nirvana.
The potential for improved fibre capability is much, much greater than it is for wireless.
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