Its not 43bil its 26bil. It could take 6 years to complete.
No its $43bill + overruns. Your $26bill figure assumes the selling off of the infrastructure then to private enterprise (I know what an idiotic idea). Question is who is going to buy a loss-making venture? I tell you who. Telstra, along with a string of conditions - such as government subsidies due to the NBN not having the 80% takeup they're counting on.
And they have specified 8 years. Think about where we were 8 years ago. Technological advances have boomed in that time, all driven by private enterprise, the private enterprise that this silly scheme will now lock out, being no incentive to develop new technologies.
We all know why the government wont allow an independent body to evaluate their NBN plan. Because its a sham. Thankfully the awareness is building and hopefully this money wasting exercise will be stopped befoe to much of our hard earned dollars are lost.
A pittance to pay for super fast broadband,cheap phone calls, cheaper pay for view TV like foxtel and much much more.
Cut the baloney. Phone calls are virually free now. Skype is free. Most VOIP providers have 10c untimed Australia wide. I use it at home and in business and have for years.
Foxtel and telstra don't want this because its going to hopefully stop these two from ripping us off once and for all.
Nice theory, except that the whole infrastructure will most likely end up back at Telstra (or some other monpolic telecomms company). Good thinking einstein.
