Don't look now, the white elephants are multiplying
Gosh. The normally reliably Labor supporting Kenneth Davidson has a column saying that the Coalition has better policies on the NBN and superannuation.
Actually, I suspect that many of the claims he makes regarding the NBN will be hotly disputed by tech people in the industry. I doubt that this is a Davidson area of special knowledge, and this part of the column reads suspiciously like a list of questionable talking points prepared by some consultant who is against the NBN.
That said, I have always felt that the NBN is the riskiest of Labor's policies. It's just that I have tended to be persuaded that enough people in the IT industry had come on side that it was probably was a worthwhile thing.
6 comments:
Steve,
Both Joshua Gans and Stephen King have written critical articles of the NBN at core economics only for their arguments to be demolished by commenters ( mainly engineers).
Stephen King agreed that he was wrong however Gans didn't.
Thanks, I'll go looking later...
I get the impression that people in the IT industry like getting free stuff from the government, not that they necessarily think the NBN is brilliant.
Everybody likes free stuff TimT! But which part of the NBN is "free" ?
Oh of course it's not free ultimately, taxpayers still pay for it. Free in the sense that it's a service the government decided on under Kevin Rudd that's not linked to any commercial imperatives or private providers.
Tim,
I don't think that's how it works. No-one gets access to it without paying. ISP's pay NBN, Users pay their ISP.
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