Yeah the real question is if this will deliver enough benefit to justify the costs, it's mostly sold to the public as improving medical services and businesses

Yeah the real question is if this will deliver enough benefit to justify the costs, it's mostly sold to the public as improving medical services and businesses in rural areas. To look at it from the point of view of Melbourne though, if willing to pay for it we can already get 100mpbs net, something I'm sure will be available to everyone who can get cable currently before the NBN is done. It's worrying that they are avoiding releasing any type of business plan or cost benefit analysis. Also it was strange that the plan was out for a long time before they mentioned anything about the fact that the network would be able to deliver far more than 100mbps over time to the home. Makes me think many in the government didn't really understand what they are actually rolling out.