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SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA 12 SEPTEMBER 2017
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SERVICES & ORGANISATION COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDA 12 SEPTEMBER 2017
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Access to Telecommunications sat
Access to Telecommunications Index
Access to telecommunications is measured by “
asking respondents to rate their access to (i) 42 42
mobile phone coverage in their community, as 5
well as the following types of services in their = = :
home or property, on a scale ranging from ; 5 66
‘very poor' (1) to 'very good' (7): (ii) Mobile ES
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phone coverage; (iii) Reliable internet (that § B39 se =
doesn't regularly drop out or slow down); (iv) f 5 sa
High speed internet; and (v) Affordable Za
internet. The average of a person’s responses 37
to these two items, which were highly
‘ 36
correlated, was used to construct the ‘access Rural & regional Australia Rural & regional Queensland Noosa (n=320)
to telecommunications’ measure. (n=12981) (n=1953)
The categories represented by the Access to
Telecommunications Index are presented below. The
respondents scored each category on a 7-point scale, from
‘very poor’ (1) to ‘very good’ (7), with the results below
showing percentages for those who scored the categories 5, 6
or 7 as showing belief that the services were good.
Access to Telecommunications Categories
@ Rural & regional Australia (n=12981) @ Rural & regional Queensland (n=1953) @ Noosa (n=320)
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63.7
60.0
60.0 = 564 56.2 56.6
50.6
50.0 +
3 3 46.0 45.1 443
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€s 40.0 + 35.9 346 201
# 3 32.5
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& 20.0 |
10.0
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Mobile phone coverage in Mobile phone coverage at Reliable internet (that High speed internet at__—_ Affordable internet at
the community home or property doesn't regularly drop out home or property home or property
or slow down) at home or
property
7 a Sa =
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