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NBN becoming costly embarrassment

Posted by: 2ue | 1 February, 2012 - 6:39 PM

Will wireless be better for the internet of the future than the NBN?

If there wasn't $50 billion at stake, it would be funny. But now it is revealed the Gillard government wants to bring in artists to sell the benefits of the NBN. Paul Murray with Malcolm Turnbull on a costly white elephant.

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Except Mr Turnbull is wrong. NBN prices have turned out to be the same or cheaper than both ADSL+phone and Naked ADSL services. Don't believe me? Read http://delimiter.com.au/2012/02/03/correction-nbn-prices-will-not-be-higher/
Unless the coalition catches up with the fact that the NBN is the only way that the last 40% of Australians will ever get decent broadband in Australia, they will for the third time lose regional electorates, and lose another unloseable election in 2013.

Francis Young Friday 3 February, 2012 - 2:49 PM
Just another example of tax-payers money going to support the Labor/Greens 'propaganda' machine. As if wasting billions of our dollars on the Not Bloody Necessary isn't enough they have to get their luvvie,lefty actor friends to promote this fiasco too! Yes, the left really do like spending other people's money!

Susan Thursday 2 February, 2012 - 12:16 PM
Yeah Get Malcolm Turbull in to sing the praises of the NBN,come Paul you can do better then that, why not get yer radio mate from QLD in as well to bag out the government, boring radio son , thats why you don't rate

Pete Thursday 2 February, 2012 - 11:25 AM
The reason for the NBN is for the Feds to be like China and have total control over content seen by Australia.
They told us they wanted to censor the net now they have a way and the nerds will be payed by the Feds to do it, instead of saying get stuffed do it yourself control freaks!

Evil triumphs when good men say nothing! Wednesday 1 February, 2012 - 8:06 PM
Artistes? More like highly paid bullsh#t artists with even more of our borrowed, wasted chinese money, squirted into the NBN- Labor trough.
Bye the bye, is cross the floor, the [Liberal] alarmist warming expert Malcolm Goldman-Sachs-Turnbull still 'passionate' about Australia getting a fraudulent anthropogenic global warming tax? To somehow save the planet from frying to death? Even though the planet, alarmingly is obviously cooling/freezing to death. As reported this week, in the New York Times and the Daily Mail etc.

Kerry Wednesday 1 February, 2012 - 7:31 PM