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The NBN upgrade isn’t a backflip, it’s a forward roll – Sydney Morning Herald
NBN Co has announced a massive new investment in upgrading the speeds of the network but it’s not an embarrassing backflip to Labor’s original all-fibre plan.
To the extent there is a flip, it is from the original “build it and they will come” approach of Kevin Rudd and Stephen Conroy to the “build it once theyve shown they need it and are prepared to pay for it” philosophy that underpins NBN Cos announcement.
Conroy dismissed criticism of the lack of a cost-benefit analysis for the original NBN because the future demand for broadband and the applications that might emerge were unforeseeable.
We now know a lot more about the demand, and the applicat…
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