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ISSUE 1061 FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 2018
Frasier’s super fundraiser
ST LIBORIUS Primary School student Frasier Holden has been congratulated by the Leukemia Foundation after shaving his head on Wednesday. Frasier told the Weekly in January he hoped to raise $1120 to support two families after losing his brother Jacob to cancer. But so good was his effort he smashed his target, and the foundation gave him a cape to wear at this week’s shave to recognise his effort.
NEW LOOK: Frasier Holden.
WEB WORRY Photo: ANDREW PERRYMAN
By SHARON KEMP
BENDIGO residents are delaying transferring to the NBN suggesting NBN Co is losing the public relations war over broadband in central Victoria. And further shaking up the sector, the city’s business group BE Bendigo has confirmed it is considering an option to advocate for 5G connectivity, which could compete with the national broadband network. It is understood fifth generation mobile networks form part of the
Customers stay away from dud NBN
City of Greater Bendigo’s Smart Cities proposal. BE Bendigo will decide at its March 27 board meeting what items make up a state election wishlist to be released within weeks, but chief executive Dennis Bice said based on a member survey last year, communications will be part of it. Meanwhile, NBN Co released its first monthly performance report this
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week showing improvements year on year in the proportion of premises Australia-wide transferring to NBN. On the same day, Bendigo MP Lisa Chesters released a survey of the Bendigo electorate containing anecdotal evidence that residents were delaying transfer because of negative reviews of the network. “Residents in areas that have been allocated fixed wireless connection
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are even less likely to have transferred to the NBN network (because) many constituents living in fire prone areas reported that they are extremely worried that the connection will not work and they will be left with no form of communication in the event of an emergency,” Ms Chesters said. Both reports require qualification. The NBN report shows a signifi-
cant reduction in the time wasted because of congestion, dropping from four hours 50 minutes to just 12 minutes. The result, however, is Australiawide and doesn’t account for individual Internet Service Providers who skimped on broadband and don’t have enough to share around. Their customers are likely to have suffered congestion but the NBN’s report does not drill that far down.
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