How Australia Bungled Its $36B High-Speed Internet Rollout

Re:How Australia Bungled Its $36B High-Speed Internet Rollout by nl on Friday May 12, 2017 @06:35AM (#14322793)

The parent is saying that the Rudd/Gillard/Rudd battles lost them power. It's a narrative which probably has some truth to it.

It's also worth noting that Labor was slow rolling out the NBN. They did have 6 years in power, and didn't get NBN in the hands of many people at all.

Yes it was a big project, but it's hard to argue that more speed was impossible.

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Re:How Australia Bungled Its $36B High-Speed Internet Rollout by ta34534445 on Friday May 12, 2017 @07:50AM (#14323130)

It's very easy to argue that. Thousands of people to train, thousands of connections to plan, thousands of pits to retro fit, asbestos to handle. Business to be created, processes, negotiations with Telstra.

The biggest problem was not going fibre to the pit. It would have saved one of the most expensive parts of the operation - the lead in to the house.

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