{"id":193,"date":"2009-04-08T09:48:43","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T23:48:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelwyres.com\/?p=193"},"modified":"2009-04-08T09:48:43","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T23:48:43","slug":"nbn-not-just-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/2009\/04\/nbn-not-just-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"NBN: Not Just The Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been a lot of debate and controversy since yesterday&#8217;s federal government announcement in regards to the National Broadband Network (NBN).<\/p>\n<p>The doomsayers would have you believe that this is a massive white elephant, and that we should not be paying so much for potentially 100Mb connections to the home.  The bottom line is, you don&#8217;t have to have a full 100Mb, and there is a great deal more you can do with this connection than just internet.<\/p>\n<p>A network like this has a lot of potential.  Basic telephony without relying on Telstra.  Subscription services for things like downloadable movies or pay-tv.  Interactive television.  Interactive education services in the home.  In-the-home medical services.  The list could go on and on and on, with as many ideas as people can come up with that require connectivity between two parties.<\/p>\n<p>Before people assign this thing to the scrap heap, saying it will be obsolete before it is completed, I say try learning a little about the possibilities, before kicking this around as a political football.  This has the potential, if done correctly, to transform the Australian economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been a lot of debate and controversy since yesterday&#8217;s federal government announcement in regards to the National Broadband Network (NBN). The doomsayers would have you believe that this is a massive white elephant, and that we should not be paying so much for potentially 100Mb connections to the home. The bottom line is, you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[368],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-nbn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelwyres.com.au\/mwdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}