Liberals take Telstra split off the cards

05.11.2008

Minchin said the government's NBN initiative is a naïve “big-bang” solution and suggested the $2 billion of NBN funds to be drawn from the now defunct Communications Fund should be used to subsidise industry broadband deployments alongside the $270 million Australian Broadband Guarantee.

He attacked the government for culling the fund and the OPEL network, and called the NBN a “populous and deeply flawed” process.