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		chris_wot on Dec 5, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cable TV's plan to kill “over the top” internet st... Oh, the irony! Malcolm Turnbull paid Telstra for the copper networks so that the government could own them again. He did this so that nobody else could get fibre to the home. I feel a bit sorry for him. He was forced into this by Tony "Shirt-front" Abbott, who knew nothing about technology (or how to run a country, for that matter). Now he's stuck with it - a millstone around our new Prime Minister's neck. I guess the intense destabilization and white-anting now going on in the LNP will distract from this.

wycx on Dec 5, 2015 [–]

Is there any evidence at all that he was forced into this? Are there anecdotes of Malcolm arguing for an all-fibre NBN in the party room, only to be smacked down and forced into MTM?

chris_wot on Dec 5, 2015 | [–]

There aren't. I concede that I could be projecting what I want reality to be, in this case.

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