[the australian] THE objective to build a high-speed National Broadband Network is visionary but the strategy for the NBN - building fibre direct to 93 per cent of Australian homes to deliver up to 100 megabits per second, let alone the suggested gigabit - is based on some false assumptions.
The case to spend $43 billion has been pursued largely by the beneficiaries; the consultants, technologists and Telstra competitors selling a series of myths to influence politicians, the media and the public.
No other country is remotely proposing such expensive government expenditure.
Nevertheless, these myths have grown up around the government's NBN venture.
lIt's an enabling technology: Broadband internet has been compared with the great enabling technologies of history such as the wheel, the steam engine, the printing press, electricity, the telephone, computers and the internet. But broadband is not a new invention, it is only a means of delivering existing and well proven technologies in a faster way.
Broadband plan is smoke and mirrors
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