In my opinion, what was supposed to be NBN for almost all homes (operative word being almost) in Australia was never going to work because of the cost and vast distances and remoteness of many homes in this country.
It's not even about political parties really either, it's about technology that had no chance of being uniformly successful that no politician could understand when even the techno-brains behind it (not including politicians) could not come to grips with the true cost and problems it presented which were inevitable.
The result of that now is the "layers" of that technology will ensure that it is guaranteed not to work for the whole country in less than a haphazard way ... wireless, copper, to the node, to the house, satellite and then ultimately hardly working where it is important, not to mention what happens when systems go down and people left without any communications when the systems crash, and crash they do.
It could be argued that the whole idea was brilliant in theory but not in practice because there was not enough time taken for proper research and when that happens, the consequences/results are always dubious at best.
Arguments about the political parties and "who is to blame" are not useful or helpful. It doesn't address the real cause and effect of the problems that are in the here and now, namely, the NBN and how to fix it (if it can be fixed).
Having stated that though, it looks as though the buffalo in the china shop is here to stay until sanity prevails and it can be fixed. Meanwhile, millions, if not billions of dollars have been wasted and that won't end anytime soon while time ticks on and it just gets worse unless intelligently addressed (probably not in our lifetime though).
Sorry haven't read the thread.
Anyone know if you have cable, do you need to switch to NBN ?
