This is for Australian readers. So, you might as well just close this now if you're not from Australia.
Ok. Let's get started.
The NBN is meant to provide 90% of Australian homes, businesses with a 100 megabits per second connection to the internet. Taking eight years to build, and at a total of 43 billion dollars.
The NBN will cost around $200 per subscriber.
But. In Japan, a user says he currently pays $60 a month for a 160 megabits a second connection from his ISP.
Today, in Japan, you can get a 160 megabit connection to the internet for 60 dollars a month. And in the US, there are ISP companies who charge $140month for a 50 megabits a second connection.
Now Australians are being told it could take up to eight years to build a massive network that’ll only provide 100 megabits.
The idea of simply providing double the speed of America over eight years doesn’t sound that appealing, much less so the idea of getting 60% of what our Japanese friends can receive today for a fraction of the price.
And another thing for you to think about.
Later in the day, when I was about to go to sleep. I checked my Hub station for latest news. And one of the news articles was, "NBN, first switch on" So, I watched the video.
And something dawned on me that, a man we all here in the internet world of Australia know as, "Stephen Conroy"

This is a man, earlier in the year wanted mass filtering systems applied to the Australian ISP networks. Filtering, child porn, porn-of offensive content, so pretty much porn, and etcetera.
He would have total control of the black list. He could order a block of any site at any time he liked.
Now let's think about this. The GOVERNMENT which HE is apart of. Is paying 43 billion dollars for a new internet system. Which, if, ISPs do not buy up slots, or areas of connection. The government will have. Meaning, HE will assume CONTROL of.
It's just living proof, and further evidence that.
Australia is run by morons. It shows us the...