Rudd's announcement on broadband contained a lot of party rhetoric but little substance.
It did not say when or who. It did talk about speeds like those enjoyed in say Japan but it did not cover the single largest weakness the current Australian system faces, bandwidth restrictions. If you still have a 2 GB download limit per month getting rid of this 100 times faster is hardly useful.
If you check you will find that even places like Thailand provide unlimited access to their users, and at prices less than we face here. Unless there is a similar effort in building and increasing the current pipelines into Australia from the rest of the world then half of the equation is missing from Kevin's latest plan.
It will take a decade or more to provide fiber to 90% of homes so I guess Kevin expects to be in power for a long time yet.
Probably the worst aspect is that it will be a government company which means high costs, delays and inefficiencies. Perhaps it is just about creating more government jobs
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