COLAC OTWAY Shire mayor Frank Buchanan says seven new and extended telecommunications towers will provide faster and more reliable internet service for the region.
Council backs towers for broadband rollout
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Well we live near the old High School and I couldn’t say the Mobile & WiFi reception is 100%.
We all know COS are 20-30yr behind with most things, so why take that time and look at where technology was at and who had what… the result here would be in line with what it should be.
When are they going to fix mobile phone reception in the Ondit & Beeac area? from what I heard mobile reception was also going to be upgraded when this NBN gets built, what amazes me is that all the city areas who already have access to ADSL are being first on the list where as we who have to use mobile / wireless internet are ripped off, why wont the current Minister tell us when this might be completed I never get emails returned when this issue is raised
I spoke with Cr. Frank Buchanan at a Council meeting in 2009 in relation to the Colac Otway Shire Council erecting its own Telecommunications towers as other Councils have done which had considerable financial benefits to the community as the various Telco Companies pay to use the Towers.
Unfortunately Cr. Buchanan was not interested in the idea. I spoke with Companies who build and erect Telecommunications Towers who explained that a Council could have a Tower built and erected for $ 50,000 which the Council would make in the first year of rent to Telco Companies who would pay for the use of the Towers.
The Council could have gained financially here and the communities most effected by the
location of the Towers could have benefited from the profit made from the renting fees instead of begging each year for a small hand out from a Council which spends almost ALL our rate money on its own wages!
And before CR. Buchanan or any other Councillor states that the Council could not afford to supply its own Towers let me remind them that they managed to spend $900,000 on the old Home Hardware building which when I questioned the Council in relation to the reason it purchased it the then CEO Rob Small answered “It was a strategic purchase for no specific purpose”!
National Broadband Network Co must start construction…. ‘within two years’ what a joke another thing too the data deals for NBN are a rip off