The Bulletin


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What should be done with the NBN in the long run?

  • Written by Mark A Gregory, Associate professor, RMIT University

The National Broadband Network (NBN) should be built and fully operational by 2022, having cost about A$50 billion. The question will then be whether the government should retain the NBN or sell it off.

The current government has laid the groundwork for NBN to be broken up and sold off. But this could end the NBN’s positive disruption of the...

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