> The only meaningful difference between government and opposition at the moment is in their NBN policy, and that doesn't matter. Labor's Jason Clare can say as he pleases, he can't reverse the current government's purchase of the hybrid fibre coax networks, or the copper telephony network, or the deployment of fibre-to-the-node nodes.
The reason it doesn't matter is because of Labor's decision to build a fibre network with speed tiers starting at 12Mbps currently 79% of people on fibre are connected at 25Mbps or slower. The ironic part of this is that if you removed speed tiers from FTTN & HFC these networks would be faster for the overwhelming majority of Australians than Labor's FTTP with speed tiers.
Labor could have locked the country into a FTTP path but instead muffed everything beyond the 'good idea' phase.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
