[LINK] ABC News: The great NBN fail

[Antony Barry]

The great NBN fail
Wed 22 Feb 12, 00:30am AEST
Nick Ross

I've had enough and something has got to be done. I'm pretty much certain now that, outside of the tech sector, the majority of Australians hate the NBN. Many people hate it because of its ties with Labor. Some hate the idea of the (perceived) massive amounts of tax money being spent on an infrastructure for geeks which is irrelevant to them. Some are hating it because the Coalition is telling them to. And I no longer blame them. This is immensely long article but it needs to be. It's a digest of a dozen other massive articles I've been planning to write, but as you'll see, they're going to take a long time and time is running out. If you hate the NBN, or if you're a mainstream journalist who reports on it, or if you're a member of the Coalition, Labor or NBN Co, then you really should...

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