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75% off Starlink hardware (for rural Australia)

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Halcyon:

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--- Quote from: Monkeh on April 13, 2023, 06:56:50 pm ---
--- Quote from: Halcyon on April 12, 2023, 01:15:59 pm ---What constitutes "rural" is not known
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"Australia" ;)
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You joke, but the national monopoly telecommunications provider (ex government entity) was allowed to decide for themselves which areas were "metro", "regional", and "rural". As that set the pricing structures they picked the classifications to suit their business profit rather than geography or population.

End result: Australia's federal parliament building, in the middle of Canberra and surrounded by embassies/consulates/diplomatic residences was categorised "rural" (up until at least 2019).

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To be fair, Canberra is in the middle of nowhere, although it would be a bit like classing Las Vagas as rural.

Psi:
Probably more likely they have been working hard to push the BOM cost of the terminals down.
Custom silicon etc..

Someone:

--- Quote from: Halcyon on April 13, 2023, 11:16:28 pm ---
--- Quote from: Someone on April 13, 2023, 10:00:54 pm ---
--- Quote from: Monkeh on April 13, 2023, 06:56:50 pm ---
--- Quote from: Halcyon on April 12, 2023, 01:15:59 pm ---What constitutes "rural" is not known
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"Australia" ;)
--- End quote ---
You joke, but the national monopoly telecommunications provider (ex government entity) was allowed to decide for themselves which areas were "metro", "regional", and "rural". As that set the pricing structures they picked the classifications to suit their business profit rather than geography or population.

End result: Australia's federal parliament building, in the middle of Canberra and surrounded by embassies/consulates/diplomatic residences was categorised "rural" (up until at least 2019).

--- End quote ---
To be fair, Canberra is in the middle of nowhere, although it would be a bit like classing Las Vagas as rural.
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The middle region of Canberra with the most expensive realestate was categorised "rural" while adjacent/surrounding suburbs and further outlying suburban sprawl was "metro". But yes, the larger region is rural enough that it is one of the few (possibly only?) capital cities in the world where you get ads for agricultural products on the television broadcasts. The main joke was that a "regional" classification could have possibly been defensible, but Telstra was brazen enough to make a mockery of the ACCC's directions for fair competition and the stupid classifications persisted all the way through until the NBN replaced the commercial reasons for doing so.

Canberra was dense enough for a commercially operated residential fibre network in 2002: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TransACT
Open access wholesale network, FTTN/FTTC VDSL, I wonder what that sounds like?

Someone:

--- Quote from: Psi on April 13, 2023, 11:37:16 pm ---Custom silicone etc..
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:-DD
silicone /= silicon

Psi:
No custom silicone cover, instead of plastic.  To save cost.
Yes. that's what i meant...  ::)


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