Should the Labor party win the upcoming election this year, it appears one of the first things on the agenda will be to replace the ‘second string’ so called expert task force picked by the Coalition government with some ‘real people’ that are in the know when it comes to grass roots Broadband and it’s potential impact and future for our country.
Labor has said it is prepared to work with the government’s existing WiMax plans if it wins the next election — but the party’s shadow Communications Minister is getting the knives out for the Coalition’s expert taskforce on fibre-to-the-node (FTTN).
“We will be starting again with our own [taskforce],” he said, “and with someone who knows something about telecoms.”
Should Labor come to power in this year’s Federal elections, the Coalition’s fibre plans are likely to be dismantled and replaced with Labor’s own AU$4.7bn vision of Australian FTTN.
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