It seems like it’s taken an age, but the Labor government has today released the business plan for the NBN. The big numbers: $24 uniform wholesale price for the minimum 12Mbps download speeds, 10 million homes connected within the next 9.5 years with 1.7 million of them connected by June 2013.
Well, the stalemate was going to end in one of two ways: Either Labor were going to give in to Senator Nick Xenephon’s demands and supply the NBN business plan, or Conroy was going to go on a bloody rampage through the Senate until only politicians supporting the structural separation of Telstra were left to vote. The second would have made a more interesting telemovie, but with only a day left before Parliament goes on Summer vacation, the Government has coughed up a summary of the NBN’s business plan.
