Links
Links collected by YCAG. Many date from 2016–2019 and some may no longer work.
Others doing the same as YCAG — investigating other options
- goyderConnect
- ABC News story on farmers doing their own fibre network
- Wamboin Communications Action Group
Broadband in disadvantaged and forgotten areas like ours
- Better Internet for Rural, Regional and Remote Australia (BIRRR)
- BIRRR on Facebook
- Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN)
- Weekly Times Data Drought
- Survey of data needs in regional Australia
- Other ways of getting broadband when the Government can't deliver
- The woes of NBN Skymuster
- The NBN wholesale fair use policy
- How fair is NBN's satellite fair use policy
- Queensland Country Life article on NBN satellite fair use policy
- Whirlpool - Sky Muster Fair Use Policy and Usage Plans
- Is the NBN failing Aussie Farmers?
- The Netflix effect: TV networks' shifting video on demand strategies - Sydney Morning Herald article
- Is SkyMuster being left behind already?
- NBN Co accused of using Sky Muster as 'dumping ground'
- NBN Rollout in Rural and Regional Areas — pages 8–11 of the document linked from this site are particularly relevant
Where issues are being reported with satellite NBN
- Whirlpool forums with users discussing issues
- Over subscribed NBN Satellite issues
- Issues with latency using geostationary satellites
- ABC News report on the Productivity Commission and the USO
- NBNco acknowledge issues with Sky Muster
Phone service obligations
Information on your ability to have a fixed line phone service and problem resolution options and time frames
- Customer service guarantee for phone users - faqs
- Productivity Commission investigation into removing the USO - submission
- Government to ditch Telstra's USO
- Government should have better Telstra USO info: Audit committee
- Victoria invests AU$1.7m in regional gigabit fixed-wireless
5G articles
- 5G Is Not the Answer For Rural Broadband
- 5G is coming — here’s what to expect, and when to expect it on your carrier
- 5G challenges Australia
- NBN absolutely still planning on 5G fixed wireless
- Why Australia needs long range 5G standards
- No answer to regional mobile worries
Other links
- Internet Providers Face Broadband Marketing Laws
- NBN prices rising
- Adelaide telco gets $5m government grant
- ACCC to look into future of the services on Telstras copper network
- Australia Ranks Last in Affordable Broadband
- Logged Out: Farmers in far north Queensland are being left behind by the digital economy
- Govt consults on Regional Digital Connectivity
- NBN encourages users to find alternatives to the NBN network for times of emergency, i.e. bush fires
- California saying mobile outages cost lives in fire zones