Re:Why the NBN needs to go the full way
by jacques_chester on Friday September 06, 2013 @05:08AM
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> Not to mention that this is an investment which will pay back to the government.
According to NBNCo modelling, which has never been published. We are told that it has been reviewed by Deloitte (as I recall). But we weren't told what Deloitte reviewed, we weren't told what assumptions Deloitte were told to make. You can get an "auditor" to pass anything you want if you control the assumptions of the model.
NBNCo have already had to progressively change their projections for rollout time, rollout penetration and end user takeup. Multiple times. Does this change their model? I am kinda sorta prepared to bet that it does.
This goes back to my personal beef about the very poor transparency and governance of the NBN project.
According to NBNCo modelling, which has never been published. We are told that it has been reviewed by Deloitte (as I recall). But we weren't told what Deloitte reviewed, we weren't told what assumptions Deloitte were told to make. You can get an "auditor" to pass anything you want if you control the assumptions of the model.
NBNCo have already had to progressively change their projections for rollout time, rollout penetration and end user takeup. Multiple times. Does this change their model? I am kinda sorta prepared to bet that it does.
This goes back to my personal beef about the very poor transparency and governance of the NBN project.