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With the NBN set to solve the tyranny of distance and being the answer to the great moral connectivity challenge of our times, the NBN still has limits.
While it could be made to go anywhere we want it to, there are just some parts of Australia that are either too remote, or too difficult and expensive to get fibre connectivity to, with these Australians set to rely on NBN wireless and satellite options instead.
The ABC quoted NBN Co's Trent Williams stating that there are issues 'around land density and cost efficiencies and a whole range of factors - the amount of premises that there are etc'.
Mr Williams states that: 'so when we get to the other 7 per cent that aren't going to be able to get fibre optic cable, then we're looking at a mix of either fixed wireless or satellite services."
Wireless technologies are constantly improving, and with low levels of remote users, clogging up that part of the network with too many users won't be the problem - making sure you have a strong connecting to the wireless network will be the main concern.
Of course, if you're simply that remote that getting fibre just to you would make the international debt crisis seem like small change, then a NBN satellite service is your saviour.
Satellites still have the longest latency times due to the physical nature of satellites being thousands of kilometres up in Earth orbit.
So, if you can't get a fibre connection to the NBN due to your location, you'll find yourself part of that 7% of Australians that must go wireless - or move to where a fibre connection is available.
Still, plenty lead totally wireless lives today, so it's already doable and being done by many - even if not yet at the superfast NBN speeds the future promises.
If only the future would hurry up and get here already!
