ovely cliched statements makka...like cutting red tape will solve everything.
the fact is we had 11 years under Howard in which things were left to the private sector and Australia currently ranks 43rd in Internet speeds.
the facts suggest your fairy land private sector model has failed.
in steps the NBN to correct this market failure.
lol, you whinge about cliches with your own silly cliche about being 43rd in Internet speeds? Maybe you'd like to decipher exactly what that means. Downlaod speeds, upload speeds, quality of connection, reliability, latency? I'm all ears. Still, after that comment of yours, I was waiting for the rest of your argument but none was forthcoming. The private sector has grown the telecommunication capabilities immensely in Australia. Speeds have come a very long way. Competition was building. We'd finally broken the Telstra monopoloy. So what does this government do, they choose to spend $50bill (which will turn into $100bill) and completely stifle infrastructure building to the extent that there is virtually no private infrastructure spend now. That's why we're now falling behind right now, whilst the givernment spends wads of our tax payers money with gay abandon whilst hospital beds and services are cut.
No other country has taken on this stupid approach because everyone else knows it's a waste of money. But this bumbling government that has stuffed up every big build infrastructure they've attempted and wasted fistloads of dollars surely are right on this one and everyone else was wrong? Please give me a break. If you were in the industry you would not be talking in Labor induced cliches. You'd be agreeing with me and most who are in the industry, that it's a huge waste of money. The biggest in history.
