Stil wrote about the National Broadband Network in the recently released Federal Budget 2008 on Crickey with a follow-up post on his own blog: Rudd government delivers yesterday’s broadband.
It’s funny; just a couple of days ago when I met with David Mathews we were talking about something similar but with with the rollout of TransACT a few years back and how that network and infrastructure was obsolete before the project was completed.
And we’re about to see a repeat of that. In fact, as Stil says, other countries are already rolling out networks with speeds far above what is in the spec for this National Broadband Network.
So it seems we haven’t learned any lessons from previous such projects and we’re about to waste a whole lot of money doing it again - or are we? Perhaps it’ll never come to fruition, what with a large portion of the National Broadband Network budget “Not For Publication”.
Wireless infrastructure on the other hand is far more scalable and easier to upgrade.
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Free internet? What a thought………..has Telstra been informed? They’d all suffer heart attacks.