[LINK] PM's national broadband plan really is no net gain

[Birch, Jim]

Henry Ergas is a paid Telstra consultant, so you can take what he says
in that light.

I don't know how he gets the $215/month figure, it sounds like a scare
number calculated in the Telstra spin directorate to me.  Economist John
Quiggin gets a back-of-envelope figure of $80/month, with what seems a
reasonable if simple calculation to me.  It's still a lot but I guess a
fair few people already spend that on internet and phone.  Better
numbers please.

http://johnquiggin.com/index.php/archives/2009/04/08/the-broadband-revol
ution/

He also suggests renationalising the local copper will be a lot cheaper.
Given how much everyone hates Telstra, this might not be such a problem.


Jim


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