ALP scrap the NBN

[Rorschach]

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UPDATE

The Financial Review sees the upside:

Fewer than 100,000 Australian homes are likely to be linked up to the national broadband network in the months before the next federal election, making it easier for an incoming Coalition government to scale back the costly project.

NBN Co’s four-year corporate plan, released yesterday, predicts that 92,000 homes and offices will be customers by June 2013, a 14 per cent take-up rate well below the previous forecast of 566,000.

With an election due by November next year and the Coalition against a full-blown broadband network, there is great uncertainty about the NBN’s long-term future. The relatively low number of subscribers could help a Coalition government replace NBN Co’s plan with a simpler version.

The government will have to inject an extra $2.9 billion to cover a rise in capital and operating expenses. The completion date will be pushed back six months to mid-2021.

Geoff Kitney:

If the Gillard government was counting on grateful subscribers to its gold-plated national broadband network making a difference when the votes are counted at the next election, it had better quickly recalibrate.
Nearly half a million households were due to be connected to the NBN by the time the election is held around this time next year. A lot of them were?going to be in key marginal ­electorates.

Now it appears that fewer than 60,000 premises will be connected in a year’s time.

[Neferti]

A labor politician is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.

-- G. Gordon Liddy

[Rorschach]

[mantra]

The cost of living has become outrageous. We were better off 20 years ago with 18% interest rates. When we are eventually forced to connect to the NBN - half the population won't be able to afford it.

[Super Nova]

The cost of living has become outrageous. We were better off 20 years ago with 18% interest rates. When we are eventually forced to connect to the NBN - half the population won't be able to afford it.

True but one or two bush kiddies will be so entertained with their new internet porn download/upload speed they will not kill themselves. It's worth it. Ask the Monk to explain............

[Jovial Monk]

Mantra stop telling lies! The NBN does not charge a cost to be connected, using VOIP there are no call charges.

This is what Malcolm Turnbull really thinks of FTTH—loves it!—and is putting his money where his mouth isn’t:

“If Australians want to know what Malcolm Turnbull really thinks about investing in fibre to the home, they need to follow his money, not his mouth.

“Alongside his investment in France Telecom, which plans to connect 15 million homes with fibre by 2020, Mr Turnbull has also bought bonds in Telefonica – Spain’s largest telecommunications company.

“These bonds are helping build a fibre to the home network in Spain’s major cities, including Madrid and Barcelona,” Senator Conroy said.

“Telefonica plan to bring 100 Mbps services to 1.3 million premises in Madrid, and to cover 50% of the population of Catalonia by 2013.

“Mr Turnbull wants to spend billions of taxpayers’ dollars building a second rate fibre to the node network in Australia, but he continues investing his own money in fibre to the home.

“If Mr Turnbull thinks fibre to the home is good enough for France and Spain, then he should support it for Australia too.

(press release by Sen. Conroy)

[Super Nova]

Mantra stop telling lies! The NBN does not charge a cost to be connected, using VOIP there are no call charges.

This is what Malcolm Turnbull really thinks of FTTH—loves it!—and is putting his money where his mouth isn’t:

“If Australians want to know what Malcolm Turnbull really thinks about investing in fibre to the home, they need to follow his money, not his mouth.

“Alongside his investment in France Telecom, which plans to connect 15 million homes with fibre by 2020, Mr Turnbull has also bought bonds in Telefonica – Spain’s largest telecommunications company.

“These bonds are helping build a fibre to the home network in Spain’s major cities, including Madrid and Barcelona,” Senator Conroy said.

“Telefonica plan to bring 100 Mbps services to 1.3 million premises in Madrid, and to cover 50% of the population of Catalonia by 2013.

“Mr Turnbull wants to spend billions of taxpayers’ dollars building a second rate fibre to the node network in Australia, but he continues investing his own money in fibre to the home.

“If Mr Turnbull thinks fibre to the home is good enough for France and Spain, then he should support it for Australia too.

(press release by Sen. Conroy)

Wow... in France they have plans to connect 15 million less than the population of greater London inside the M25 ring. It's probably the main cities only.

Wow... 1.3 million premises in Madrid... fuck me.

He's putting his money where they are making good business sense. High populations areas where it is ecconomic to have fibre to home. The homes are next to each other and stacked on top of each other.

Poor example. A very desparate example you are a ..........

[Neferti]

Monk still thinks he is going to get FREE NBN to his home, in his lifetime.

[IQS.RLOW]

Mantra stop telling lies! The NBN does not charge a cost to be connected, using VOIP there are no call charges.

Why do you lie? This is blatantly false

[mantra]

Mantra stop telling lies! The NBN does not charge a cost to be connected, using VOIP there are no call charges.

Call charges are the least of my worries and not everyone will choose or be able to use VOIP. It's the whole package deal. What happens if your computer breaks down. Landlines will go and a year ago I read that the monthly package will be at least $139 a month. No doubt it will cost a lot more if and when we finally get it. The cost won't be justified.

Half the population don't care about fast downloads. The NBN is purely a scheme instigated for and on behalf of the multinationals - and to help all the joint military bases popping up all over Australia. There are a lot of massive corporations making a packet out of this deal at the expense of the population. Paying out billions to Telstra is offensive too.

The cost of smart meters - another Federal Government initiative, which are proving unsuccessful will seem benign in comparison to the NBN.