My comment was really focused on the purported 'economic' benefits of high capacity internet.
If the major economic areas already have the stuff, the economic impact of fibre is largely already realised. That argument is therefore greatly diminished.
Secondly given the number of private enterprises already rolling out the stuff since 2000, if they haven't come out to the suburbs yet it's because is not economic to do so. The NBN pretends otherwise, I think they're lying.
It was pointed out by someone previously that Telstras market cap is $33 billion. Telstras network covers 99% of the Australian population. It just doesn't make sense to recreate all over again another monopoly, destroying any value in the first monopoly and undercutting all existing private enterprise purely to justify this monstrosity in the first place.
The NBN can only be justified as a monopoly, which breaches all sorts of competition laws.
