bob katter, page-76

"What do you think the take up rate might be when the copper lines are removed?"

Of course that is why they were never going to let Telstra directly compete.

On a voluntary take up the NBN would have utterly failed.

What's incredible though, is that even with a 50% take up rate and using swans projected figures, their returns still don't look that flash.

Labour since coming to power have had many big visions, in near every case they were riddled with waste or simply did not get up off the ground ... The NBN is another vision. A concept born out of (yet another) failure of the previous vision.

Now they can spruik the benefits of the NBN all they like, but the reality is they have no runs on the board to give them credibility.

Why not allow their plan to be subjected to benefit analysis? Why not find out if there is a better way to go about this?

You see it's all about having a focus they can run with for the next two elections. It's already apparently once won them minority power via the vote of a man who doesn't even use a computer.

There's no doubt they won't want to hear about a better and cheaper way to build the NBN until it effects their internal polling.