In 2009 a Labor government planned an Australian "National Broadband Network" (NBN) which was to serve 93% of Australians with direct fiber connections, the remainder to be covered by Wireless and Satellite.
Unfortunately in 2013 the coalition government won power and immediately set about to destroy the NBN.
It has since has been widely reported that this was at the behest of Rupert Murdoch who saw that his Cable network would be threatened by a high-speed broadband network.
Whatever, do your own research. There have been thousands of words written on this.
Is it not ok to ask people making bold statements to backup their claims?
The wikipedia article (which I admittedly only quickly scanned) doesn't appear to mention corruption, murdoch, or newscorp. The other is a hyperbolic opinion piece that doesn't provide any references whatsoever.
Regardless of all this, you completely missed my point. The grandparent was complaining about lack of competition whilst being in a semi-rural (read low population density) and there being only one real option, with multiple resellers. Corruption isn't stopping rollout of companies from rolling out multiple competitive networks to rural australia. There is not going to be any return on investment.
For a country like australia we need internet as publicly owned infrastructure, with "zero competition...just resellers of the same system".
The coalition really ballsed-up what should have been a great resource for the so called "clever country". However, if starlink lives up to the marketing promises "our tech-illiterate decrepit government"s opinion that it would be a waste to provide fibre coverage to 93%* of our population, and their decision to instead to wait for technological advances to provide solutions better suited to australia is suddenly not a bone headed as people make out.
Unfortunately in 2013 the coalition government won power and immediately set about to destroy the NBN.
It has since has been widely reported that this was at the behest of Rupert Murdoch who saw that his Cable network would be threatened by a high-speed broadband network.
Whatever, do your own research. There have been thousands of words written on this.
Here's just one: https://theqlder.com/2019/05/11/how-the-liberals-sabotaged-t...
And here's the very detailed Wikipedia version:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_National_Broadb...