[LINK] Just 16 per cent tipped to take up NBN

[Jan Whitaker]

At 10:12 AM 7/06/2010, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:

>ONLY 16 per cent of homes and businesses passed by national broadband
>network fibre-optic would choose to connect to it, even after 15 years.
>
>The surprisingly low estimates were prepared by the Tasmanian government
>and have been released to The Australian under Freedom of Information
>law, in a ruling by state Ombudsman Simon Allston.

Not that I am a Conroy fan, but this was put to him on Jon Faine's 
program on ABC this morning. The point Conroy made was that this data 
was pre-NBN. Supposedly the Tassie data is now a survey result of 48% 
take-up indication.

Jan



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