Convergence Review

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Convergence Review

When more spectrum becomes available, how should the government determine how it is managed and used?

Please reserve a chunk of spectrum across rural, regional and remote Australia for the delivery of the NBN. I recognise that it's not part of NBNCo.'s current delivery plan due to their dependence on existing off the shelf technologies but the symmetrical inequities of satellite delivery in particular will put non FTTH users at a distinct disadvantage in the emerging digital economy.

I'm sure you're aware of the Ngara technology being developed by CSIRO - it offers great hope for symmetrical bandwidth access to those of us in hard to reach locations. When this technology matures, we'll need the spectrum allocation to capitalise on it.

Download speeds = consumption. Upload speeds = production. Don't allow rural, regional and remote people to be consigned to consumption only just because they live beyond the cultural cul-de-sac of urban Australia.