p style=”text-align: justify”>Tony Abbott wants to spend over $20 billion, but will leave millions of Australians with no discernible difference to their broadband speeds.
This is rolling out broadband with all of the costs, but none of the benefits. And under their plan, the Coalition’s second-rate network will only take two years less to complete than Labor’s NBN.
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Tony Abbott wants to spend over $20 billion, but will leave millions of Australians with no discernible difference to their broadband speeds.
This is rolling out broadband with all of the costs, but none of the benefits. And under their plan, the Coalition’s second-rate network will only take two years less to complete than Labor’s NBN.
Federal Member for Ballarat Catherine King said “the Coalition’s broadband betrayal is bad news for Ballarat families. Regional Australian’s are the biggest losers under the Coalition’s broadband plan. Families that are the last house in the block will have slower speeds and only those that can afford $5,000 to connect fibre to the home will have a quick connection.”
“The Coalition is planning to charge Australians up to $5000 extra to connect fibre to their homes and businesses. Under Labor, connection to the NBN is free.
“The Coalition will abandon uniform pricing and force people outside of the cities to pay more for their internet. This means that people in Ballarat and regional Australia will pay more for internet than those living in Melbourne.
“Under our NBN we will make sure people in our region will get access to superfast broadband at the same price as those living in Melbourne,” Ms King said.
This is another Coalition broadband betrayal.
It’s a fairy tale.
They are proposing to build the broadband equivalent of a Sydney Harbour Bridge with only one lane.
Malcom Turnbull said this morning on AM that their plan would cost families thousands of dollars to get connected.
Q: If residents and households want to buy their own fibre cable, to connect to those nodes that will mean that Australians who have the capacity to do so can – how much would it cost, have you done the sums on that, on people who actually want to buy their own fibre connection to those nodes?
A: but if you were 1000 metres away for example in the UK, ah, it would cost several thousand pounds. So, you know, several thousand dollars to get fibre pulled to that premise.
TURNBULL – AM – 9 APRIL 2013
He went on to admit that houses further from the node will have slower speeds:
Q: Your plan is fibre to the node, or cabinets at the corner of streets replying on copper then going into the homes. The homes that will be the farthest away from those nodes, they’ll get the slowest service though, won’t they?
A: Well the further you are from the node, the lower the maximum speed would be.
In this day and age, fast, reliable, and affordable broadband, is an essential utility, like water and power. Accessing it shouldn’t have to depend on where you happen to live or how much money you have.
The Coalition’s broadband policy is simply inadequate for Australia’s needs now and into the future.
It cannot deliver the high speed services that Australians require to take full advantage of broadband-enabled healthcare, education, and business opportunities.