And ISPs giving IPv6 addresses mean little if customers have no equipment that handles it. Why don't most CPE support it? Most makers don't write the full software suite. They tweak what the chipset providers write. Complain to Broadcom and others.

Many competitors have stated that the Telstra tax is a larger cost than international connections. In some cases servicing some area of Australia are more expensive to use Telstra monopoly than sending data from Sydney around the globe to Perth.

Wow, a lawyer not up to his word. Trying to weasel out of it by saying it was a joke. I hope Cheney Mason loses. It'll probably be the only way anyone will get justice against anyone with Cheney in their name.

Dr. Karl. He has nice colourful shirts and plenty of books.

It's hard to think of any industry that likes any increase in costs. They all fight it. Why don't they look to Australia? We already do similar. We have the largest cattle station in the world. It managed to adjust. Plenty of small operations too. They managed. It would be easier for all operators to swallow if some kind of levy is used across the industry. Then your only issue then is imports.

It is maybe you that needs to do some research. Some suburbs currently have FTTH and do have 100 mbit. Internode Home Fibre is one such product. I'm sure there are suburbs serviced by other carriers too. Some cable people currently get towards 30 mbit. As for your slow international connection then that is your network stack tuning, source, ISP or other issues. I can pull data at 700 KB/s from Astraweb's newsgroup service on ADSL 1 connection.