The NBN may be called a company, making it sound like a free enterprise entity, but in fact it's a government monopoly, a state bureaucracy. As such it is based not upon free enterprise philosophy which underpins Australia's economy, but on China's model of state enterprises run like private corporations - up to a point. One might say "oh, but China's doing so well, why not base our economy on their practices?" Well, if we had a billion people, were starting from a low base, had a strong work ethic, and a hunger to create a middle class and claw our way out of poverty, maybe. But the problems attendant upon China's recent growth - inflation, corruption, pollution, ageing workforce - are now beginning to make themselves felt, and China may lose its position as the engine of world economic growth. So those why say let's abandon the US and go with China are short sighted. Plus, our track record of publicly owned corporation such as the State Engineering Works at Wollongong is not a good omen for such a move. And as for the NBN, in 10-15 years time wireless will do the same job, better.

Labor is on track to build us a state of the art $40bn network for $90bn and about 5 years late, pretty much as they have done with every other project.

We, every thinking understanding Australian, via my beloved ALP,s right wing are going to suffer.
See the NBN was to bring us up to world class.
It is not, sorry to dissuade the few, to make playing mind numbing games faster.
It is was and always will be, a tool to drive the very economy of the world.
Those who love to blame Labor, ever for this giant nation building scheme, should understand just what Abbott is going to do, in putting his steam driven toy, inter net in its place.
If yesterdays road builders, built bridges wider, we would not have spent more than both road and bridge cost, to widen the bridge.
Had Labor not tried so hard, to destroy its self, ignore voters thoughts, we would have seen this magic thing come fully in to use.

Building the fiber backbone is like building the harbour bridge. The fibers to the houses are like the little side streets that can be upgraded as needed.

The NBN as per Labor's model is a financial disaster that will hang like a stinking albatross around the government's neck for decades.

Belly old mate, if you have a good look around the world, you might just decide "world class' is something best avoided.

Even when world class is good, at reasonable cost, becomes rather important.

Although there is also a financial aspect (which is of less concern to me), the most 'Chinese' thing about the NBN is that ordinary people are denied the choice which technologies they want and which they don't.

This is yet another case of the nanny-state forcibly dragging us towards where THEY think is 'good for us' according to THEIR ideology and system of values.