Coonan v Conroy: Submit your broadband election questions

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Testie TesternameApril 19th, 2010

Coalition Communications Minister Helen Coonan and Labor communications spokesperson Stephen Conroy will be going head-to-head in a televised debate this week -- and it's your chance to ask them both the burning election questions you want answered.

Coonan and Conroy will face off in the hottest debate of the season, taking place this Friday on Sky in conjunction with ZDNet Australia.

From 4pm to 5pm, Coonan and Conroy will debate the red hot issues of communications and broadband in a special one hour edition of Agenda -- and ZDNet Australia wants you to join in the discussion.

What would you ask the Minister and her Labor counterpart? Use the feedback system to post your questions below -- questions that will be used to guide the subjects tackled on the live debate this week.

To watch Coonan and Conroy face off, tune in to Sky on Friday at 4pm or visit ZDNet Australia for all the coverage of the event.

Post your questions below for a chance to make sure Coonan and Conroy tackle the issues you need to know about.

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Government! POLICY ? is FLAWED!

1a. Why FTTN when FTTH is the better choice to replace all the old copper and RIMs/Pair gain.
1b.Why does Government policy favour Tel$tra all the time, which is what FTTN will do without more regulation which isn't a real good option.

2. When is government policy going to STOP Tel$tra from gouging the public for their own & shareholders benefit?

3a. When is government policy going to separate Tel$tra into 2 organisations..Wholesale & Retail, to prevent the internal fudging of costs for the benefit of their Retail operation & stop undercutting of the competition?

3b. When is Government policy going to force Tel$tra to thrown the Broadband switch to give all those in range access to ADSL2+, instead of the farce we have at present!

4a. Why do Australians pay "THE" highest costs in the world for Broadband services?
4b. Why are Australians the only Broadband user in the world (ignoring a few piddling countries) paying for download?

5. Why do you tolerate arguing & bickering about FTTN/H due to the failure of Government policy to direct Tel$tra policy, when other countries are already installing FTTN.

6. Why are we still dithering over BPL to the home, due to the lack of Government policy or direction, when the technology has been defined for over a decade?

7. If FTTN is too hard & going to be delayed for a decade longer due to Government inaction, why hasn't policy already been defined for WiMax in all exchanges (it's easy to install & doesn't require high cost cables to users) immediately as an interim policy and give ISP's a write down as an incentive to do it?

8. Why hasn't Government policy provided education departments with a subsidy to install Broadband for the benefit of ALL education, instead of leaving it up to Tel$tra & ISP's to gouge the schools and bicker over cost charges. It seems to be more a case of allowing them to profit over education rather than providing the advantages of Broadband to ALL schools?

I could go on, but if sensible and practical answers and outcomes to these questions are provide, we might just make some progress, instead of the stalemate we've put up with for the past decade. It would help, of course, if the Politicians running the portfolio knew & understood the technologies they were responsible for! None in the past decade have!

Keith StylesKeith Styles November 12th, 2007
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So is the tax system you pay into to support government. What more do you want?

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