The pros and cons are no different than choosing buying a new car paying a little more or buying a cheap old second hand one that will only last a few years. It seems Mr I'll fix the infrastructure Abbott, isn't keeping to his word with wanting to keep the old copper wire that we currently have. Than fully completing the new optic fiber system the NBN has been laying down under ground, which will last for over 60 plus years and will fully compatible with all the undersea optic fiber system that connects to all other global countries.
Compared to current copper wire that has half life that oxidizes if its under ground. That's while it's all on power poles and you have to turn all your computer and other equipment during a lightning storm, to avoid a power surge or if some one hits a power pole, your Foxtel, Austar, Optus TV, and all IPS channels on Fetch TV, Telstra T-Box, PlayStation etc and the net go down, until they fix the cables. 'Which isn't good enough in 2013, especially how much we actually pay for these services in Australia'. Compared to other country's in the world which are a under a third of the price what we all pay. Yet as consumers we still have a yesteryear system, and are sharing all of our phone, cable television and internet provider systems with Telstra and Big Pond services.
Who charges all of the major phone and internet provider company's a fee which all flows onto us and our bills, that's we pay through the teeth. If Mr I'll fix the infrastructure Abbott, has his way keeping the copper wire system we will remain being many years behind in broadband technology with a slow internet speeds and over paying for this lemon. Even Romania and Korea has faster broadband speed than we do as well their internet, cable television, and phone services are a third of the price we pay.
If it wasn't for all of these political argument causing hold ups, it would have all been fully rolled out now. Our taxes have 'already' paid for this, the more they delay and argue it's costing billions more of our tax dollars than it was originally set at. They should finish this NBN project ASAP than just playing politics and putting it on hold which will cost more in the future to fully bring it up to global standard. This is just showing not even three weeks after the election that we going to have three more years of 'nothing' getting done. Mr I'll fix the infrastructure Abbott, needs to realise that's the only reason why was voted in. He promised no more of these games and would finally get things done. I and millions of other Australians are angered seeing our tax dollars that have already been spent, being wasted on all these half finished projects.
Addition..The NBN project was to make it more affordable and accessible for even granny to get on line. It seems that still had the liberal government for the last few year we would still of had analog television with only five channels than Freeview digital SD HD channels which the liberal Howard government held back too. Lets hope the full switch over is still on December 13th 2013, not four years from now.