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I would have to say that it has certainly put paid to the coalitions line of attack before they came into office was that launching our own sats was hugely wasteful and that the service should be supplied by buying capacity on existing sats.
IIRC, they mopped up most of the available capacity for the original interim service, presumably if the ALP was still in office they would be buying up whatever else they could get too.
Also interesting is the "Revelation" that the fixed wireless service might come to a crunch for lack of available spectrum, this is when it is apparently expected to deliver services to about 40% of the 4% of Australians it is to cover. It certainly puts the sword to the arguments that wireless delivery is the cure for all our ills and should have been adopted for the majority of the population.
I work in the sector and have been watchign the NBN circus since it's inception, I have more or less given up hope of anything sensible coming out of it in the next decade. I consider myself lucky to have gotten on to fixed wireless before the wheels fell off, now I just have to hope it continues to be affordable if other players are allowed to cherry pick the profitable areas and leave the low value ones to NBN Co, or whatever they change it's name to (They have changed just about everythign else)
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