Turnbull's NBN headache rages
In Business Spectator the focus turns to Turnbull's NBN headache and how it has grown. Turnbull's effort to doggedly stick to the Coalition's NBN plan in the face of overwhelming evidence that it will harm the nation's interests has brought him back to earth and even his staunchest allies must now see Turnbull as a fall guy for a government with a broadband plan that is increasingly becoming a focus for protest.
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NBN Co's great gamble
The great Hybrid-Fibre Coax gamble is well underway at NBN Co and what this will mean for consumers is discussed in Business Spectator. The promises of future upgrades and black spot remediation are under the microscope as there is increasing evidence that the short term promise of a quick boost in NBN customer numbers provided by existing HFC customers is too big a cherry for the government and the communications minister Malcolm Turnbull to overlook.
The NBN Phony war is over
This week in Business Spectator the end of the NBN phony war is cause for celebration. The telecommunications industry has finally shifted to ask the hard questions of a government policy for a second best broadband network that will do nothing for Australia's economy when compared with countries that have adopted a fibre to the premises rollout.
Attack of the NBN zealots
You're either a fibre zealot, an economic rationalist zealot competition zealot or simply missing the point of the NBN, which is to provide a refresh of broadband infrastructure that will have a lifetime of 50-80 years and not a short-term injection of funds to get to the next iteration of an obsolete technology.
NBN Co's fibre tangle
A key aspect of the NBN has been the Senates ongoing inquiries into what is happening at NBN Co and the latest appearances by NBN Co executives at the Senate Select Committee has provided valuable information that is generating debate around why NBN Co has shifted to the multi-technology mix NBN without due justification for a life-time cost analysis of the current renewal of existing broadband infrastructure.
Tasmania's NBN fibre freeze
The government's multi-technology mix national broadband network has effectively meant there is a fibre freeze in Tasmania and this is the worst possible outcome for a state that is in need of a technology transformation. In Business Spectator Tasmania's NBN fibre freeze is discussed and why there is a need for a rethink on the MTM NBN.
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