[Aussie Keith]

Shocking twist as Coalition government instructs NBN Co to proceed with Coalition policy.

NBN: Good-bye FTTP, we hardly knew ye - Computerworld

[rustynutz]

Morons....  

[Ugly Mongrel]

Morons....  

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[FatBoy]

Morons....  

+1

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After receiving a letter from both NBN Co and Telstra to say that we are in the NBN area (fixed wireless), I went into Telstra the other day to get it connected, only to be told that we weren't in the area and should wait until we were told by NBN Co.  I told them that I had received a letter from NBN Co and Telstra and that I wanted to be connected.  Still nothing happened.

A shamozzle from the start (only to make it a bigger shamozzle with the current Government).

[Just Rick]

Doesn't affect me one iotta,under the LP NBN plan our little town was not even in the running for fiber cable upgrade,as the crow flies we are less than 100 K's from Perth,we still have area's of our shire which can only get dial up,areas which still have absolutely NO mobile coverage at all.

[Doggie 1]

I was initially opposed to the NBN, but given that the project was started I think it should have been completed in its original form.

[Phil №❶]

Me 2

[beerman]

I think that the business world would have had this done ages ago.

Outlaw the laying of copper line and require all new developments to provide a cable link. Buy the pits off Telstra and resell them to cable providers who can lay the past the premises. The internet provider can then tap into that for their service and pay the provider a fee for use. This would be the sort of investment many super funds would love to be involved in (they are cash rich and getting more every week), and provides a very good defensive yield for SMSF and other investors. This breaks the project up into bite size portions that many businesses can execute without becoming overwhelmed.

Use any profit from the pit auction to provide a service to those areas who currently don't get one.

National Broadband was a dream of Kevin Rudd. History has shown he was big on vision poor on execution and no government can see past their next election to provide a vision of Australia in a decade.

[Mike SX]

.......This would be the sort of investment many super funds would love to be involved in (they are cash rich and getting more every week)

So it would seem, but investing elsewhere instead ?:-
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/04/19/article-2608597-1D35599900000578-303_634x286.jpg

[beerman]

Super funds across the world seek to diversify risk by investing in other areas of the world (Australia especially so while the AUD is higher than the historic norm....Invest in good assets when the dollar is high when the dollar inevitably falls your returns rise).

A Canadian pension fund bought the Brisbane airport train link a while back, there are others, but that's the one that comes to mind...

[Mike SX]

@beerman, Yes, but they were attempting to sub the cash to a Registered Bankrupt for "Investment" !