>tried to copy the NZ model
>didn't separate the build-out from backbone ownership like they did
>didn't have 4 wholesale providers competing for customers like they did
>bent the knee to screeching retards about overhead fibre going on powerlines and instead put it all undergournd for 5x the cost, this fucking website is somehow still up after 15 years: https://noaerialnbn.org/
>a shithouse business model that relied on cheap connections within 100km of every capital city to entirely fund all the losses for 50 years on skymuster
>having to change the law to stop competitors like TPG building their own infrastructure in cities to pay aforementioned subsidised country fucks: https://www.itnews.com.au/news/tpg-calls-for-nbn-protectionism-to-end-554297
> Starlink smashing skymuster in cost, bandwidth and latency and basically making it worthless
>government still pretending it's a Government Business Enterprise like AusPost which makes money and doesn't need constant cash injections to keep the lights on, they are desperately trying to keep it off the budget books (this would be catastrophic if ABS considered it not a GBE anymore and classed it as a budget item)
Fucktard redditors and ideologues refuse to admit governments of all persuasions shat the bed on this and the free market could fix the internet for 80% of Australia in a year if they were allowed to.

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Don't worry, every mobile broadband connection in the country is taxed $10/month so the government owned NBN is on a "level" playing field with industry and low usage users don't switch over