longweekend58 wrote on Oct 3^rd, 2011 at 11:42am:


Not really. The poll stands - for those who are of serious belief that the NBN will not recoup its costs because it is a service that won't be used then surely they will themselves not use it and resort to the alternative... wireless broadband for ... $50 per 5GB of download data or so forth.

And surely if you are of the opinion that the NBN will be like Telstra Wholesale, a monopoly, then the policy is in fact good because what it does is give us better infrastructure and remove the outrageous situation where a retailer has a monopoly of the wholesale product, which is what kept prices high and the infrastructure crap.