Coalition takes NBN back to the drawing board
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Opinion: Might not get off the ground before 2020.
There are many flaws to the alternative plan for a national broadband network delivered by the Coalition yesterday.
The worst of these threatens the viability of NBN Co, and would take the Coalition, assuming it wins government in September, back to the drawing board on broadband competition.
The army should rescue the NBN
By Mark A Gregory, RMIT University
The National Broadband Network (NBN) is in dire trouble and has reached the point where Julia Gillard should declare a national disaster.
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Have you ever wanted to exist in more than one place at the same time?
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The Coalition's NBN a hard sell
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With only four and a half months to go until the election it appears that only a miracle will save the government from electoral oblivion.
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It’s difficult to envy Malcolm Turnbull’s job when it comes to the NBN. Explaining how The Coalition will come up with a “cheaper, faster” network is no small task.
His alluring promise has been out there for months, and until last week we had little sense as to how it would be accomplished.
The smart money was on The Coalition putting forward a national broadband policy platform that would simply see the overhaul of NBN Co. The recent slew of failures plaguing the rollout has given The Coalition ample justification for such an action.