This is a comment to Malcom Turnbull’s op-ed in the Australian on April the 14th, but was not able to be posted because the website of the Australian encountered “errors” trying to post it.

Malcolm

You say that The FTTH NBN risks competition from Telstra offering “higher and higher speeds”, don’t confuse people to think they are “higher” Malcolm – you know the speeds of copper are no-where near that of fiber don’t you.

You say that Telstra’s Melbourne network will be 100Mbps, but the truth is they say it will average of 70Mbps up to 100 Mbps downstream and up to 2Mbps upstream.

And you know that Telstra have long been known to over estimate the speeds of users connections don’t you? ..Retailing broadband for a certain price, forcing people into 24 month contract when they know full well that they can never or don’t plan to achieve these speeds. I consider this criminal, but for lack of legislation they are continually allowed to do this.

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