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An Australian Parliamentary committee has recommended that petrol and diesel cars be phased out in favour of electric vehicles in a report. This is not yet law but shows that the government is serious about reducing the dependency Australia has on oil and reducing greenhouse emissions.
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Australian Plan to Ban Petrol and Diesel Cars
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(Score: 2) by jb on Monday April 08 2019, @04:25AM
Agreed. To make that viable though, it would have had to be a genuine dedicated media network (just like the existing copper network, only using fibre instead of copper), so that choosing the standards used for transmission would be a simple matter of negotiation between each subscriber & his ISP (just like it is on the copper network).
If we had that, I'd have no issue at all with paying for two transceivers (one each for my end & the ISPs) to get far better bandwidth than the default offered on each link.
But with the NBN (regardless of which access method exists in your area, and under both the current Government's plan and their predecessor's), like all shared media networks, every single subscriber in the area is forced to use the same transmission tech. And of course they standardise on what they "expect" an average household to need, which makes the NBN pretty much unusable for any business beyond a corner store...
Until that's fixed (which it seems isn't on the cards at all, no matter which party wins the next election), those of us who do most of our work online are pretty much restricted to living in metro or major regional cities (or paying 6-figure+ establishment costs to have some other provider do a dedicated build out -- way beyond my budget!).
One does not need a tin foil hat to see the real reason why both parties insisted on building NBN as a shared media network: it's much easier/cheaper to spy on than a few million dedicated links would be...