[LINK] Turnbull's NBN

[Frank O'Connor]

... Seems pretty much like Turnbull's Australian Republic.

Remember that? The Republic you have where the politicians are the one's who get to appoint the President, and the electorate has nothing to do with it? The one that the 60-65% of the Australian people who were in favour of a Republic couldn't and wouldn't vote for? That Australian Republic?

Now he proposes an FttN NBN that costs $30 billion, that offers the same performance for 90% of the Australian public as they're currently getting over copper, that has maintenance overheads with its VDSL design that will in all likelihood cause operating costs to blow out like crazy, that means that the satellite subscribers will effectively be getting a better AVERAGE bandwidth than fixed line subscribers (I want satellite now ... unless you can ensure that the VDSL node is right outside my door, Malcolm) ... and did I mention that this is gonna cost $30 billion?

FOR WHAT? I mean, you could simply not spend anything, forego the NBN completely, and 90% of subscribers wouldn't know the difference.

This is a late April Fools Day Turnbull press release, right?

I mean ... he can't possibly be serious.

Can he?