Successive Australian govts should be tarred and feathered for the politicisation of national and critical infrastructure. The NBN is a national fucking embarrassment and it's the only choice we have. I share
@Sky_Collapsed frustration, to be honest.
Its an international embarrassment; when you can get internet x4 speed in a developing nation like Indo. And still, no-one in Australia has been held accountable for utterly slow speeds and eye waveringly high prices.
There has been lots mentioned on Rotorburn regarding the NBN; this essential piece of infrastructure was f#$ked on two fronts;
1) Politicisation: Originally proposed in 2006 by ALP, the LNP has always been sore they didn't originally champion the tech. In 2010 Turnbull and Abbott proposed to decommission the NBN program, and in 2013 they proposed the insane mixed tech. Although NBN delivery was mostly done under LNP Govs, they always blame ALP for NBN issues (performance and construction cost blowout).
2) Corporate Influence: on LNP; redundant streaming products which were heavily threatened by NBN; the above LNP duo proposing the mixed tech under the guise of construction cost saving, knowing full well normal household consumers would be the ones to suffer, propping up corporations which were using older tech. Follow the money.
The Fed and State LNP has much to answer for in its failure to deliver infrastructure and policy; public money is used to build critical infrastructure such as roads, comms etc, but inevitably falls short due to some corporate influence. Look at Sydney toll roads; all built with public money and leased to the private sector; normal families fork out huge tolls on infrastructure they originally paid for. Or the lockout law policy; killed Sydney overnight, but the casino (highest rate of violence of any venue) retained 24 hour gaming and liquor license...