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NBN Unveils Its Three Year Plan 
NBN Co got accused of trying to slip in advertorial content, the first “virtual” NBN-based ISP was announced and regional areas got to grips with the realities of the NBN rollout in this week’s NBN news.
Graeme Samuel is the former head of the ACCC, and in conversation with The Conversation, he’s given his opinion on issues that most Giz readers are quite passionate about; in this particular part of the interview he discusses petrol pricing, supermarkets and the NBN in lengthy detail.
NBN Co announced its first satellite gateway, Telstra’s taking an even split bet on Coalition or Labor policy, and out in Broken Hill they’re dusty and disheartened.
Like three-quarters of Australians, the small NSW town of Merimbula isn’t on the three-year rollout map for the National . But the town now has its own NBN claim to fame, having been selected by NBN Co as the site of its first satellite gateway.
After the flurry of announcements around its three year plan, things got serious this week, with NBN Co buying spectrum, announcing income and bringing some services back in-house in this week’s wrap of NBN news.
The Coalition went on a timing rant, NBN Co’s advertising didn’t exactly go as planned and a new chief financial officer was named for the National Broadband Network in this week’s wrapup of NBN news.
The Coalition’s latest attack on the NBN has shifted from purely financial to accusations of pork barrelling, stating that the areas chosen for the next range of roll-outs were selected for reasons of political expediency. How accurate is that kind of thinking?
When the NBN three year rollout plan was announced last Thursday, Malcolm Turnbull was quick to go on the attack, as is Coalition policy in these cases. But something had changed; rather than complain on the grounds of cost, the new battlefront appears to be one of timing.
At a media briefing in Sydney today, NBN Co executives outlined in more detail how it picked the sites in the new 3 year plan, as well as why Malcolm Turnbull’s attacks on NBN Co’s plans are “odd”.
The latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) show that our appetite for mobile broadband isn’t diminishing, with 47 per cent of internet connections coming through mobile broadband. But that also means we need to reiterate an oft-made point: the fact that wireless services are popular does not mean that fixed-line projects such as the National Broadband Network (NBN) are irrelevant. The biggest proof? We keep downloading more data.
