The longer as time passes by, the stupid the NBN policy!

Comments on Stephen Bartholomeusz “Industry's better broadband plan”, 1/09/2010, http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/nbn-telstra-optus-alliance-of-affordable-broadband-pd20100901-8V3Y2?OpenDocument&src=sph
It appears increasingly that the NBN has failed business test and become a stupid idea.

The government should simply create an environment for the private sector to build what they think the best is, using targeted incentives to deal with any market failures.

But the government has chosen the $43 billion NBN instead.

PS: extracts from the article:
There is an underlying commonsense to the themes of the Alliance for Affordable Broadband’s arguments for version three of the national broadband network.

The Alliance, a group of senior telco executives that includes AAPT CEO Paul Broad and Pipe Networks’ founder Bevan Slattery, issued an open letter this week arguing the case for a largely wireless-based NBN with high-speed fibre deployed to deliver speeds of up to 1G to schools, hospitals and businesses.
The alliance advocates a mix of broadband technologies and public and private funding rather than the government mandated and taxpayer-funded $43 billion monopoly wholesale network envisaged by the federal government.
In that sense it is closer to the Coalition’s NBN policy than Labor’s, although it revolves around a next-generation 4G national wireless wholesale network that it says could deliver speeds of up to 100 Mbps to 98 per cent of Australians. It says the network could be built for around $3 billion.