We are well into the 21st century now and many things have changed. One of those is the good old shop front. Once the principle way of telling people about your business, it wasn’t uncommon for shop fronts to be considerably larger than the actually business, as is the case for this little west end corner store (its still there today actually), with the business itself occupying only a small part of the building but the signage and the building itself suggesting a much bigger enterprise.
So what does todays shop front entail? Well for many, especially those without a physical shop its your website. And just like the shop fronts of old you can project a big presence, but this time its as big as you like. Here the canny sole trader can compete with much larger businesses through the presence they project.
Hooray the NBN is finally here, After years of sitting 4km from the exchange on the end of some suspect copper (and very slow ADSL to prove it) we finally have the NBN. Its not the almost unfundable fibre to the premises or even to the node instead the much derided HFC. HFC is hybrid fibre coaxial, means it pretty much runs on the Foxtel/Optus cable network which is all great in theory. There’s just one snag this network was designed around a certain set of carrier frequencies and the NBN is using a different set of frequencies. All good in theory, but in practice it means the network components may not quite be up to running at those frequencies, nor have been replaced in the arc to connect as much of Australia as possible can before the next election.