Telstra's 'future of medical diagnosis' needs just 5Mbps

If the future happens at 5Mbps, we need fibre to the what exactly why?

A couple of weeks ago, Telstra breathlessly announced "the future of medical diagnosis", namely "haptically-enabled robotics" that mean ultrasound examinations can be conducted remotely, complete with force-feedback so that a sonographer can guide their instrument over a distant body's lumps and bumps."