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Is Victoria's NBN shortchanging our population?

So the NBN is being built, it's exciting isn't ? Or is it?

Rewind, a few years ago. Kevin Rudd announces the 'NBN' is a reality and it's being built by a new great company. It's not Telstra, it's not even related to Telstra but it will use Telstra's infrastucture in some part. Wow! that should have been the bell ringer right there really.

Fast forward to present day.....if you have ever botherted to look at the NBN roll out map and you live in Victoria you probably wouldn't get too excited too quickly, espeically if you live in the Geelong Surfcoast area.  Perhaps we live in a high density state or perhaps local voters haven't had much of a voice but the roll out map seems to have forgotten a lot about us Victorians.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying other parts of Australia haven't missed out.  Take a look away from the seaboard and you will see remote Australia is also being short changed but if you zoom in on the Rollout map at NBN Co.'s website and you will see that the Surf Coast area especially has been sparsely coevered by both active and in progress map pins.

Victoria is a big poplated state and yet the NBN have not revealed much for it's planned coverage.  Seeing as Victoria is a massive tourist destination (by Overseas visitors) it certainly astounds me that there is little coverage.   Perhaps we are considered unimportant when it comes to the internet but we, like our interstate compadres, require high speed internet access too.

Of course, if you are prepared to build a new home in one of these new 'manufactrued' estates with little to no services in the area, then of course you can have NBN right to your door step.  Like most Victorians however, this is not possible nor appealing to everyone. So we just sit back and wait, and wait, and wait.