“Malcolm Turnbull says the NBN was a mistake” and Four Corners ABC – Monday 23 Oct 2017, 8:31pm
|From today’s Canberra Times:
On Monday, ahead of a Four Corners report into the delivery of the network, Mr Turnbull was asked at a press conference in Canberra if “in hindsight, the project was a mistake” and a “massive waste of money”. “Yes,” Mr Turnbull responded.
Lets turn the wayback machine to 1 December, 2014:
Not that far off the mark.
Four Corners, ABC, 20:31 tonight (and no I am not in this one!)
Cheers
Steve Ulrich
Gleneagles Estate NBN Committee
One Comment
Well it was once fibre “infrastructure” that the country could build on, we knew that sort of technology would deliver for the next 20 to 50 years so that should have been the approximate payback time (or at least 10 years) for such critical infrastructure.
Now it’s a “profit centre” that has to pay for itself overnight so they saved a few dollars and used the already broken copper that everyone knew wouldn’t work, we knew that it wouldn’t work then and we are being punished for it now.
Our NBN (Mount Vernon Drive) has been so un-reliable and slow during peak periods (yes some of that is Provider related) that I kept our Optus wireless, I’m about to cancel the NBN connection as the Optus wireless continues to work more reliably and with better speeds during peak periods and I cannot continue to pay for both (same price).
I was promised 25 Mbps using NBN FTTN however I’ve ended up with 11Mbps, only 1 Mbps better then Optus Wireless 10 Mbps. Thanks Malcom!
I just pray that the NBN gods rolled out enough fibre to the Nodes that overtime FTTN suburbs can be re-done using Fibre to the home!