Malcolm Turnbull’s second-rate broadband plan could see the Coalition leave the bush in broadband limbo again, according to NBN Co CEO, Bill Morrow.
Malcolm Turnbull’s second-rate broadband plan could see the Coalition leave the bush in broadband limbo again, according to NBN Co CEO, Bill Morrow.
If Telstra follows TPG’s move to cherry-pick low-cost high value apartments in the city with a fibre-to-the-basement (FTTB) rollout – a move made possible because of Malcolm Turnbull’s copper broadband policy – the bush may miss out on ever receiving high-speed broadband across the NBN.
This is because NBN Co needs densely-populated, profitable areas to subsidise the rollout of broadband to Australians living in higher-cost regional and remote areas.
These are the areas the Coalition betrayed the last time they were in Government when Telstra was sold off and these are the areas which could potentially be left stranded again because of the Coalition’s second-rate broadband policy.
This problem has arisen because Malcolm Turnbull failed to properly consider the consequences of his policy prior to the election.
TPG announced its decision to rollout FTTB on 17 September 2013, just ten days after the 2013 federal election. It was a direct result of Coalition policy.
A FTTB rollout was no threat to Labor’s world-class fibre-to-the-premises network, but it could compete with Malcolm Turnbull’s cheaper, second-rate network.
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