This could not be further from the truth in Launceston and other areas in North-East Tasmania, where there are more than 22,000 fibre optic services in use as well as many other users of fixed wireless in rural areas.

Launceston, in fact, is the largest urban area in Australia to have complete coverage by the NBN with fibre-to-the-premises, where take-up rates are as high as 87 per cent in some suburbs.

There is only one true NBN, a majority fibre-optic network to the premises, a vision that Labor saw and started building.

The project has been unnecessarily politicised by the Coalition while in opposition and now in government it has become a hodgepodge of different services for little financial improvement.

International experience where broadband rollouts are left to the market show that the choice is simply fibre.

IT’S GREAT to see and shop at the new Woollies in Wellington Street and also the expanded BWS next door.  

However detracting from it all is the piece of wasteland between.

Are their plans to do something on this site?

TO P. Stevenson and T. Wilkin, the 80 kilometre signs near Epping Forest were erected because of poor road sealing.

I know of one pup who lost a leg because a stone from a speeding car broke a vehicle’s window and scared the pup so much it jumped from the vehicle.

Maybe you are some of the many who speed through the 80 kilometre signs and spray the gravel that chipped our windscreens and duco and many other vehicles.

The police could have had a bumper year with speeding fines in this area alone.