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This NBN is a prime example of the failings of our present system of doing things. Look at how much this is being slated to cost. Then watch how much it will actually cost to implement, if and when they get the ball rolling. If they ever get a coherent system up and running...this will not be without the inevitable delays and squabbles over who's getting what and how to implement the system (as technology changes). Instead of trying to build these sort of projects in a monetary based economic system and finding out you can't do them properly, if at all, the best system under which to implement these sort of projects is a resource based economic system. Knowing what resources you have, you then decide whether it's feasible or not to go ahead with a particular project. Something like the NBN should be rolled out as a matter of consequence for the benefit of all....not to the benefit of whoever pays for it and runs it (under the present system). It should also be rolled out and managed by those people who actually know what they're doing and talking about, not by some idiot who has a political science/economics/law/commerce/business/accounting degree who thinks that just because a few thousand people voted for him/her that they're somehow expert on anything they happen to be given to run. It's like giving Attila the Hun the launch codes for every nuke in the US arsenal and expecting him to be mature enough not to use them. Bad enough they're in the hands they're in. Leaving the implementation of the NBN up to politicians is a guarantee of seeing it either fail completely or watching some hodge podge system come into service that won't work properly to begin with. If it does, it'll be a miracle.
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