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[Jan Whitaker]

NBN petitioners target Turnbull, MPs

Published: November 26, 2013 - 1:38PM

National broadband network (NBN) campaigners are delivering a 
petition with 270,000 signatures to MPs across the country as they 
fight for a fibre-to-the-premises plan.

The online petition is being presented to 145 federal 
parliamentarians and to NBN Co headquarters in Sydney on Tuesday.

The petitioners want the Abbott government to invest in the 
fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) model over the cheaper, but much slower 
fibre-to-the-node option the Coalition campaigned on at the election.

NBN Defender spokesman Alex Stewart said the group wanted to 
underscore widespread community support for a to-the-home broadband plan.

"We want [Communications Minister] Malcolm Turnbull to know he cannot 
ignore the voices of so many Australians, so we are taking our 
message to his parliamentary colleagues across the country and asking 
them to put pressure on him," he said in a statement.

"This is the most critical infrastructure project facing Australia 
right now and the public wants to see an increase in the amount of 
fibre-to-the-premises being rolled out.

"There is no economic case for fibre-to-the-node."

Mr Turnbull has previously responded to the group's online petition 
by saying he won't walk away from one of the Coalition's "most well 
debated, well understood and prominent policies".

The Queensland student who started the petition, Nick Paine, says the 
fact the petition has taken off shows there's "a real depth of 
feeling about this issue in the community".

AAP

This story was found at: 
http://www.theage.com.au/it-pro/government-it/nbn-petitioners-target-turnbull-mps-20131126-hv3t1.html 



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