Stop the NBN rot

Comments on Matthew Denholm “Just 16 per cent tipped to take up NBN”, 7/06/2010, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/just-16pc-tipped-to-take-up-nbn/story-e6frg6n6-1225876225571
This is why the government is a very poor economic manager and an even worse budget manager.

In that sense, it is encouraging that the government is demonstrating it in full in so many areas full of mistakes, errors and wastes in current projects.

It will be good to stop its further rotting.

That time is coming.

To just quote the first paragraphs from the report:
"ONLY 16 per cent of homes and businesses passed by national broadband network fibre-optic would choose to connect to it, even after 15 years.

The surprisingly low estimates were prepared by the Tasmanian government and have been released to The Australian under Freedom of Information law, in a ruling by state Ombudsman Simon Allston.
Also released are documents showing Tasmania initially wanted the NBN rolled out mostly via wireless technology - rather than fibre - as a more cost-effective delivery method.
This would appear to support criticisms of the Rudd government's eventual NBN plan for relying chiefly on more expensive optic fibre to deliver high-speed internet."