It’s been revealed in a Senate Estimates hearing that the Department of Prime Minister & Cabinet intervened in order to secure for Malcolm Turnbull a 100 megabits per second NBN connection at his Point Piper mansion.
Consumer advocate Allan Asher has penned an article in the conversation and called the NBN an “expensive white elephant” and warned it will “faces irrelevance in cities” after South Australian premier Jay Weatherill announced 35 million dollars for a fibre network in Adelaide if re-elected.
In Melbourne, telco start-ups Lightening Broadband and DGtek are both advertising faster speeds than the NBN.