http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/nbn-retail-price-revealed-up-to-18995month-20110721-1hqbn.html

Juliar's and Conroy's NBN have been exposed as a complete frauds.

The promises were that the network would provide competition in the high internet industry and provide high speed broadband at rates comparable or lower than current ASDL2 connections.

Once again Juliar's word is worth nothing. The laws have been written so that competition with the NBN is illegal, and Telstra and Optus have been paid to remove their networks and not compete with wireless. The link provided shows the cost to the consumer will sky rocket.

Once again the man in the street is ripped off by Labor's financial incompetence.

Sorry, I checked, it is not twice, but certainly more than I am paying now.

The question is Why are we spending $50bn of the taxpayer's money?

Shorter SM:

'Ignore the headline because it's a blatant lie that's already done its work'.

Very poor form even for you, SM.

@Shadow Minister: The link provided shows the cost to the consumer will sky rocket.

Oh for pete's sake, you've posted rubbish this twice, http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=4586#119472 I hope that means I am allowed to give same answer twice:

Seriously Shadow, what school taught you to add up?

It is not at all difficult to compare Internode's ADSL plans to their NBN plans. Here are Internode's ADSL plans: http://www.internode.on.net/residential/adsl_broadband/easy_naked/ So lets compare them to the NBN plans in the newspaper article:

ADSL: $ 30/mo, NBN: $ 30/mo - 30Gb
ADSL: $ 80/mo, NBN: $ 80/mo - 200Gb
ADSL: $100/mo, NBN: $100/mo - 300Gb
ADSL: $150/mo, NBN: $150/mo - 1Tb

I can understand you being deep blue to the core, but this propensity to enthusiastically swallow any drivel that is served up by your side of politics is mind blowing.

Rstuart,

Who taught you to add up.

For $30p.m. I get 200Gb not 30

Compare it to the $50 per month. So it is 66% more expensive!

Considering that this is only projected in a few years, whilst other providers costs are still coming down, this is even more of a rip off.

its sad that rod stuart quotes numbers
withiout adding in 30 buck line rental

i wont be leaving my 50 bucks a year
quater a gig a month

what happend to fibre to the node
for a fraction of the current cost

nbn is going to go bust bigtime
as people realise we all dont want rolls royces

think of the cost
add in carbon poluters scemes
im sick of hearing where will toney get the money from
as much as im sick of the ex banker liberal turnbull into spin
[and juliar..and waynes toss...saying the sxcience is proved]

if only they could speak of the topic
not constantly try to make toney look silly

we got no tax on petrol[for 3 years]
thanks for that toney

steel and brown coal,.wouldnt have the scemes
if it wernt for the fact of toney
scoring big points about that
in fo-cuss group's

no tax on petrol...?

lol

how about the electrick bill..for light/freezers
and to run the petrol pumps and sign-age

even rates is going up
[cause of electick carbon shock]

medicine will need extra
cause their power drills use electicity

the ABSURDITY of saying toney was wrong about petrol
is a cheap shot...[obvious when 1000 became 500]

thanks again toney