Last month the NBN Co celebrated one of its biggest milestones yet but the $51 billion network is still far from fulfilling its full potential | fergushunter zoesam93
The National Broadband Network project has finally limped across the finish line, completing a 10-year construction process hindered by ideological and economic constraints baked in from the start.
“The NBN would be in a much stronger position today if they had not changed to a multi-technology mix,” he says. "The current [statement of expectations] is looking stale and very irrelevant. I'd imagine the NBN board is crying out for a new set of expectations," McLaren says.The early years of the NBN were tainted by political debate and the federal election cycle.
The challenges of NBN are not limited to the differing views of government. The detection of asbestos in the Telstra pipes and pits that were being leased to the NBN in 2013 also delayed rollout and there were ongoing issues due to the complexity of hybrid fibre-coaxial upgrades. "As a nation, we would have been in a very different position if we hadn’t rolled out the network with the speed and agility that we did," Rue says.
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