Privatisation or government ownership - what's best for the people?

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@sandy.rigby

Until the gov’t meddled, Telstra’s NBN-type plan had been FTP

As has been said elsewhere:

Should we even need a project to build the NBN? I’m old enough to remember overhead 'phone lines in the Southern Highlands of NSW. A party line that rang in Morse code, to signal which subscriber should pick up. Real, flesh & blood telephone operators at the exchange. In the decades that followed, our telecommunications system advanced rapidly. Underground cables replaced overhead wires, party lines gave way to individual numbers and exchanges were automated. I reckon we’d have optical fibre to most premises by now, if it weren’t for some pretty spectacular blunders. If we’d continued as we were, then the 'phone system would already be what we now refer to as The NBN (or getting there).