All TA has to do is explain his broadband proposal clearly - something he did not do during the election.
The $6bn that he has allocated will easily provide a high speed backbone to ALL of Australia (including those rural electorates). Thus, the same number of people that Labor has promised to get 100Mb/s will be able to get decent Internet speeds (say 12Mb/s) quite quickly. Just as for the NBN, wireless and satellite fills in the gaps.
The expensive part of the NBN is not the backbone but is the running of fibre from the backbone into individual homes.
Once we have the backbone in place tail circuits can progressively be upgraded from copper to fibre if that is desirable.
One point that has been missed is that studies have shown that providing broadband DOES increase productivity of the country. However, the VAST majority of that productivity benefit comes from providing the broadband at any speed - increasing the speed has a marginal impact on productivity.
