The Australian has published a scathing article on Communications Minister Helen Coonan labeling her as deceiver for misleading the Australian public on potential Broadband performance based on proposed new Broadband Network speeds.
The reality is that the minister is misleading the Australian public. Under the Government’s broadband plan Australians can expect speeds up to 20 times today’s average.
Meanwhile, it appears that Labor’s policy on the Broadband Network is going from strength to strength in wake of the governments handling of the project and is being adopted as a ‘more realistical’ approach by the public.
That is why Labor has proposed a national broadband plan that extends the superior technology, fibre-to-the-node, into rural and regional areas, to offer not just city comparable pricing but parity of service. The fibre-to-the-node service will deliver to 98 per cent of Australians guaranteed minimum connection speeds that are 40 times faster than today’s average.
Read the entire article here at The Australian
