Heard Stephen Conroy talk National Broadband Network at Mansfield State School on Monday night: young and old in a small audience listened.
They want real broadband and their abhorrence of the twisted pair was palpable.
The problem with wireless (as the Coalition wants) is that it deteriorates the further you go from the stations - unlike fibre optic cable to the home.
And you have fast upload speeds - not just download speeds.
Anyone who likes to post music, art, video, blogs, or uses Facebook, Flickr, YouTube, Vimeo wants good upload speeds.
The Townsville rollout started today - North Brisbane, Toowoomba, Springfield Lakes are up next early next year.
Broadband will fan out from these nodes and communities need to lobby their councils and parliamentary reps and business communities to get in the face of the NBN engineers to get their service ranked as high priority.