The current Hoo-har over Telstra plans to axe a further 1100 troops before June 30 next year, must cast yet another shadow over the el-cheapo NBN roll-out envisaged by the new Canberra government. Unions are flagging an extant shortage of hands needed to maintain the rotting Telstra COPPER cabling already 'servicing' consumers' homes as well as nodes! That means relaying fibre to nodes only will largely negate the efficacy of the government's NBN plan to leave copper as the connection to homes unless individual house-holders are willing to pony-up the thousands of bucks required to extend fibre from node to home. I can name at least one bloke who wont be falling for that dumb plan!
This half-arsed coalition plan might as well be abandoned altogether, with a saving for taxpayers of the billions not yet contracted for fibre roll-out. Just fix the ailing copper to maintain at least third-world internet access parity.
Maybe that's what their 1950's mind-set really desires anyway?
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