Goal:
- Ensure that individuals on low-incomes have cheap and convenient access to communications that can be used to take charge of their life
Reality:
Individuals on low incomes who are restricted to using prepaid mobile phones can pay up to $45 to make a 45 minute phone call to a utility/government department/bank etc.
Things-to-do:
- Identify the lowest cost method for both mobile phone retailers and all relevant utilities/departments to create a means for individuals on low incomes to conveniently call them at a very low total cost
- Investigate the cost difference of connecting the NBN fiber cables along power line towers instead of through holes in the ground.
Note: Prepaid offers were checked on the 6th of March 2011.