Waleed Aly’s The Project segment Something We Should Talk About is a network television go-to. It’s smart, funny, critical and informative.
Last night, the subject was Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, or more specifically his role in the roll-out of the National Broadband Network.
Aly raised the fact that despite an increase in cost of approximately $10 billion, the NBN (which we still don’t have) is expected to deliver a slower internet speed than the one promised by Labor.
The segment began with a clip of former PM Tony Abbott delivering a speech on the NBN where he says Malcolm Turnbul “virtually invented the internet in this country”.
“First,” said Aly, “Malcolm Turnbull invented the internet in this country as much as I invented longwinded TV rants in this country.” Oh, snap!
“We didn’t invent it but we don’t mind accepting praise from people who think we did,” he added.
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Turnbull and his fraudband. Loves to get the little credit based on fictional claims through fact twisting but with very little accountability for the NBN's failures.
Just to clarify for some "readers" further down the page...
Customers for whom fixed-wireless is the only option (and, no, I'm not in remote Australia - and the fibre cable runs right up our street) have a data cap set by NBNCo of 250Gb per month. This cap is not negotiable with your ISP. The speed is also limited to 25Mbps and is not negotiable with your ISP.
People in the city can get 1000Gb at 100Mbps for almost the same price.
For many people outside of the major cities, the NBN does not exist - for all practical intents and purposes.
All those promises of running your business from home, of working remotely, of completing your university courses online, of non-buffered, whole-home, family internet do not exist for those customers. The NBN they can access is probably worse, in most cases, than what they already have.