buzzanddidj wrote on Oct 23^rd, 2010 at 8:35am:


It was a combo of fibre backbone and wireless - a solution that would ahve worked for you but because Rudd was elected it all got cancelled and replaced with... nothing. and now the NBN which may or may not happen and may get to your area in the next 5 years. sounds like a dumb choice to me.

longweekend58 wrote on Oct 23^rd, 2010 at 11:20am:



It was a combo of fibre backbone and wireless
And Abbott is STILL adhering to this "band-aid" remedy ?

If i can repeat, yet AGAIN, I have TRIED wireless
It is more useless than satellite in inclement weather conditions

AS I mentioned previously, with the woman who runs the air charter company in FNQ
Business does not wait till wireless and satellite services return from 2 hour "lunch breaks"

Life_goes_on wrote on Oct 23^rd, 2010 at 7:48pm:


Ditto here - and the move to ADSL2+ has merely highlighted the problem of bandwidth in the evenings...

Malcolm Turnbull has come out and compared Australia's NBN with the American network on a per capita basis to cast doubt on it's viability....using this formula Australia will never build any infrastructure unless it is sub standard and the bush will get nothing.....spending in the bush can never be justified on a per capita basis when you compare it to a country with 300 million people….if Turnbull thinks Australia must justify spending on a per capita basis by comparing us to America we will have no problem running surpluses well into the future….we will not build anything!!!

Whats justified about spending 43 BILLION DOLLARS on just ONE piece of technology ???? PHILPERTH.


Why dont you explain ???

This dumb stupid idiotic laced labor government couldnt even roll out the pink batts, the BER, the solar rebates, or cant sercure our borders by sea, properly.


HOW ON EARTH ARE WE SUPPOSED TO BELIEVE THAT THIS DUMB LABOR GOVERNMENT CAN ROLL THIS OUT ???????


The stupidity of Labor is phenomenal.

and you laborites expect us to believe it 

stryder wrote on Oct 24^th, 2010 at 11:07am:





The roll-out for our National Broadband is ...

A/ Ahead of schedule
B/ Under budget

stryder wrote on Oct 24^th, 2010 at 11:12am:




Where's the POINT ?
Abbott has stated he will STILL trash it, REGARDLESS of the findings of any cost net benefit analysis

It's just a delaying strategy



NBN cost-benefit just wastes time: Conroy
October 24, 2010 - 11:39AM

AAP

Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has ruled out a full cost-benefit analysis of the $43 billion national broadband network (NBN) because it would just waste time and money.

Senator Conroy said the opposition remained determined to demolish the NBN, despite suggestions from opposition communications spokesman Malcolm Turnbull that a Productivity Commission tick would be incredibly persuasive.

He said Opposition Leader Tony Abbott had set Mr Turnbull one task, to demolish NBN."They have refused to allow debate in the Senate. They said we had to release the ACCC (Australian Competition and Consumer Commission) report. They said we had to release McKinsey's report," he told ABC television on Sunday.

"We have done all of that. Now what do they want? Another report."

Senator Conroy said Mr Turnbull had indicated he might be prepared to accept the NBN although Mr Abbott had made it clear the opposition's policy would not change.

"Malcolm Turnbull has got lots of fine words but he is still not prepared to say, if this was positive, we would support it," he said.

He said another cost-benefit analysis would waste time and money.

"This is just another time-wasting proposal by the opposition that are desperate to stop the rollout," he said.

Senator Conroy said cost-benefit analyses had been carried out into broadband networks all round the world and all had been overwhelmingly positive.

He said the government wasn't just relying on overseas studies and NBN's own internal business case.

The $25 million McKinsey report showed the financial case was viable and it would provide a return to taxpayers and affordable prices.

Access Economics and IBM commissioned a report into the productivity case for a fibre-to-the-node network, less ambitious than what the government proposed, and found the case overwhelmingly positive.
Senator Conroy said the NBN board had now concluded its business case and would put that to the government, providing significant information on costs, pricing and rates of return.


http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/nbn-costbenefit-just-wastes-time-c...