More crap from a labor lackey here's what respected communications experts and editorials have said and this can be found on the liberal party website
“The cut down version of the NBN released by Opposition Leader Tony Abbott and telecommunications spokesman Malcolm Turnbull effectively provides a cost benefit alternative, although constrained by the fact that many of the financial contracts for the NBN have been locked in place in the meantime. But the essential difference - less risk for taxpayers, less smothering of competition and a quicker build but less increase in overall broadband speeds - seems to make it the better option.” Read the full editorial here.
The Australian editorial:
“Labor has made a fundamental misjudgment about broadband and by stubbornly sticking to its guns, it is committing current and future taxpayers and consumers to unnecessarily high costs. Instead of encouraging private telcos to satisfy market demand (with appropriate government subsidies and incentives for regional areas), it has reversed decades of telecommunications and competition reform by building a massive government monopoly.” Read full editorial here.
Ian Martin, one of Australia’s top telecommunications analysts, wrote of the Coalition’s plan:
“Perhaps the most important feature of Turnbull's plan is the better matching of resources with likely benefit as people's usage of broadband increases, keeping spending in line with people's willingness to pay.” Read more here ($).
Grahame Lynch, the founder of telco industry publication CommsDay and a former group editorial director of America's Network and Telecom Asia wrote:
“The beauty of Malcolm Turnbull's solution is that it pushes fibre out closer to the customer, within hundreds of metres in some cases, helping delivering higher speeds but at a much lower labour and cost requirement because it uses the existing copper in the street.” Read more.
The technology writer and broadcaster Stilgherrian wrote:
“There weren’t many surprises in the Coalition’s plan for the national broadband rollout, released today. But now the battle lines are drawn: Labor’s NBN verses Malcolm Turnbull’s cut-price, not-quite-as-fast model. And Turnbull nailed the policy announcement today.” Full article here.
Kevin Morgan, a respected telecommunications adviser wrote:
“NBN Co is far from being a start-up and the problems that have stymied its progress, such as the need to train and mobilise a construction workforce, were all foreseeable in 2009. NBN Co has failed miserably to plan for them. At the end of last year, NBN Co had as many full-time staff as contract staff in the field, and its contractors still can't find the 8,000 workers they need by mid-year to meet targets. It's within this train wreck that the Coalition has been obliged to frame their policy. Read more here.
The Coalition’s plan will ensure the National Broadband Network is rolled out faster and cheaper, resulting in lower prices for consumers.
