[LINK] New opposition spokesperson for broadband

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Glen Turner wrote:
> Jan Whitaker wrote:
> 
>> ``Nick Minchin will take on the fraud that is Labor's broadband 
>> revolution,'' Mr Turnbull said.
>>
>> ``He will be there to take on (minister Stephen) Conroy and with a 
>> very powerful combination of experience in communications, finance 
>> and in regulation.
>>
>> ``Nick Minchin is perfectly equipped to take on Stephen Conroy and 
>> demonstrate the hollowness of this area of the government's initiative.''
> 
> If you were to describe the proposed NBN as "hollow" it would be
> because it is installing a $5B network which will be inadequate
> within a decade and have huge maintenance costs (90,000 street
> cabinets) rather than dealing with the $20B nettle of fiber to
> the home now and reaping the longer network lifetime and lower
> operating costs in the future.
> 
> What is also disappointing is Mr Turnbull's treatment of
> telecommunications as a purely political exercise.  We suffered
> strongly from this during Minister Alston's time in office. I
> do hope that attitude hasn't returned.  We'll see soon enough I
> suppose.
> 
Mr Turnbull does have some knowledge of the Internet...

> The fortunes of Ozemail founders Sean Howard, Trevor Kennedy, Malcolm Turnbull and his wife, former Sydney Mayor Lucy Turnbull, got a significant boost yesterday after their listed tech investment vehicle, FTR Holdings, consolidated its ownership of WebCentral for $19.6 million.

<http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/07/26/1090693901337.html>

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