".....What a surprise, the private sector would have provided the service to metro and larger regional areas anyway. The Government could have then subsidized non-profit generating areas of the country so services could be delivered there also. The cost to the tax payer would have been far, far less and the service far, far better...."
Nonsense, giving away taxpayer cash for no equity in a company is a stupid idea, and it would also be an immediate write off of taxpayers cash.
The NBN business plan was to give a return on the investment and was to be sold , so it would ultimately have cost us zero.
