Pity Broadband Users In Australia

danwarne writes: "Pity Australians who have few other choices for their broadband internet than the country's incumbent telco Telstra. A broadband community website, Whirlpool, has revealed that the giant telco is planning to RAISE prices on broadband again for the second time in just a few months. The telco, which has had a technically disastrous ADSL rollout is also going to be offering incentives for customers to sign up to its cable internet service (HFC) instead, in the form of faster plans for cable customers (until now most customers -- cable and ADSL -- have been limited to 512Kbit download speeds). It seems clear from Telstra's plans that they are preparing to abandon the 'messy' residential broadband market and focus on more profitable business customers." In the next few weeks, lucky Australians will find out if this "leak" is accurate.

Comments

Spare us the political pokes, please!

[Deagol]

Let me set the tone by saying that I am a card-carrying NRA member, and have been for 3 years now. I do feel that the disarming of the Australians, the British, and soon the Canadians is a damn shame. And I'm well aware of the forces that would do the same to us in the US (except Kalifornia -- it's has aleady been taken).

There used to be a cartoon at geekswithguns.org that portrayed 3 or 4 terrorists on an airplane, apologetically making excuses for their possesion of box cutters to a mob of angry and armed passengers. The caption read something like, "What may have happened on Sep. 11 if this were truly the land of the free." I agree with that cartoon 100%.

However... the no-guns-and-pricey-broadband thing really is tasteless, guys.

To imply that people should take up arms for something as silly as broadbad just trivializes the concept of an armed citizenry. And, frankly, I'm ashamed of my fellow Americans here at /. who would so quickly (even in jest) make this comment.