Coalitions Broadband Policy

This is from the Liberal Parties website under Broadband and Telecommunications Policy
http://www.liberal.org.au/~/media/Fi...%20Policy.ashx

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Australians need fast, reliable and affordable broadband services – delivered over an affordable highspeed broadband network using the best mix of optical fibre, wireless, DSL and satellite technologies.
The Coalition’s plan will deliver a uniform national broadband network, under which 97 percent of premises are able to be served by high speed networks capable of delivering from 100 Mbps down to a minimum of 12 Mbps peak speed, using a combination of technologies including HFC, DSL and fixed wireless.
This will help businesses to be more productive, reduce costs, reach more customers here and overseas and employ more Australians. It will help families with access to education, information and medical
services.

Keeping the HFC and DSL networks will only entrench Telstra's and to a lesser extent Optus monopoly.
I don't know how they are going to negotiate with Telstra so they can use their copper and HFC networks, maybe by magic. Telstra will have the conservatives by the short and curlies forever if they try and negotiate a deal to use their networks.

Continuing from their policy

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Labor is heading down the wrong track. Its government owned and government run broadband network
will be a taxpayer funded ‘white elephant’ when it is completed in eight years time. It does nothing to
deliver lower prices. It just substitutes one monopoly for another. It gives no priority to those who do not
get an adequate service today. Under Labor’s plan Australians will be waiting up to eight years before
they see a change.

The monopoly they talk of is only in the wholesale side completely different to the current Telstra situation. Under their plan they want to keep the DSL and HFC networks. This is a bigger monopoly with Telstra owning the network and customers on a lot of the DSL network and Telstra and Optus owning all of the customers on the HFC network.
Continuing.

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Through these actions the Coalition will deliver uniform nationwide availability of high-speed
broadband so that by 2016 Australia achieves a national broadband baseline with 97 percent
of premises able to be served by high-speed networks, using a combination of technologies
including DSL, fixed wireless and other technologies such as Hybrid Fibre-Coaxial (HFC). We
will ensure that all such premises, wherever they are in Australia, are able to receive services at
prices comparable to those for similar services in metropolitan areas.

The old technologies that they are talking of here all suffer from bandwidth problems, the more using these old technologies the more congested and slow it becomes. Fibre Optics does not suffer from this if it is FTTH (Fibre To The Home).
They also talk of a uniform cost between rural and city. They are going to do this by giving taxpayers money forever to these internet providers to lower the cost in the rural areas. Good deal, hey.