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> fiber-to-the-home Or, as it will be known on Saturday evening: copper to the "good luck with that".

• Wingman4l7 13y ago
  Ugh, don't remind me -- so shortsighted! (Some context: the opposition party -- which apparently is going to win? I don't follow politics too closely -- was suggesting that the NBN project could be done more cheaply if it was fiber-to-the-node instead... thus completely defeating the purpose of the network upgrade.)
• vacri 13y ago
  That's the thing that puzzles me. Fast internet benefits businesses more than residents, and it's the 'business party' that's against it. A colleague says that there are Murdoch's hands in the till on this one, given that fast internet threatens his TV offerings.
  • jsmeaton 13y ago
    WE NEED TO CONTROL THE SPENDING!!!!!!!!! That's basically all it comes down to. Not enough people care about what a fast network can do for the country, and they've been brainwashed to think that the economic management of the last few years has been appalling. It's really really strange. People all of a sudden seem to give a shit about how much we are spending and think it's a bad thing, when every economic commenter has said it's been managed brilliantly. It looks like a lot of people are trying to be smart and are failing hugely.
    • Wingman4l7 13y ago
      Well it doesn't help that all those pits have asbestos in them -- but that's not the project's fault. That would have to have been cleaned up eventually anyway. It's the same problem the US has IMO: no one wants to support grand, forward-looking projects that are going to take longer than a term in office. That's why poor NASA has its funding yoyo-ed around a 4-year presidential election cycle, and can't ever follow through on the bigger projects anymore.