[Nursie]

Australia has Abbott and friends to thank for fucking the whole NBN plan up royally.

We would have had fiber to the premises everywhere and affordable gigabit by now, but Abbott decided Australia shouldn't spend money on what he saw as merely a "video entertainment system" and binned it in favour of the current Mixed Technology mess.

Which then actually cost more to implement.

[Guthur]

Pretty sure they intentionally screw it up. It means that the populous will generally think that the government can't provide effective utility at cost and so private equity can move in and provide equally bad utility at monopoly rent prices.

[Nursie]

There’s a bunch of stuff there but I think they were also trying to protect Foxtel so Murdoch could avoid having to compete with Netflix etc.

Assholes all round