| It's about $5000 in tax per household to fund a $38B rollout, and you don't get a choice. That's the unfunded half-ass costed guesstimate which was largely skewed by politicians to make it look better. Why not let people choose to spend $5k on fibre if they want? The majority of connections opt for 12 or 25mbit anyway, sorry couldn't find url for nbnco statistic. Technically, dropping billions on fibre in this day and age is stupid given that so much (vast majority) of the population is already in areas that can get faster IP (over 100mbit) from LTE, wireless technology is the future, imagine if it was spent on LTE sites. Many people use the argument only fibre can do it, when that's just intellectual dishonesty about different types of layer 1. 4 million of Australia's households (roughly half) already have HFC that when upgraded will do gigabit. It is illegal to compete with NBN. The NBN was unfunded in its commitment. The same party implemented a $20b/year national disability insurance scheme which was also not funded. All these arguments saying it was bungled, but only the hollow commitments of the unionist/socialist party that implemented this were bungled. A lot of the angry people also don't pay a lot of net tax either which is the usual narrative of the ALP. So it wasn't properly costed or funded, all these great things that party promised in power, but they still lost the next election anyway, so the people spoke. Also NYT is fake news. :) |