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Roll Out! Roll Out! Roll Out!
The biggest change since anything but at what price?
These companies can’t even provide upfront costs to consumers?

Looks like another pay as you go con.
They know exactly what the fees and charges would be otherwise they wouldn’t be in the business. No company would make submissions for projects like this without projected returns.

But there’s no upfront honesty so as usual we’ll most likely still be paying for a host of catches, contracts and overpriced bundle fees.
These companies should be providing the consumer with real costs instead of spin and hype. What are they covering up?

And just like many of the present companies out there they lock you into deals of varied speeds at high prices only to find the services aren’t as good as they make out.

So far its all been one big con and one has to say is this another insulation scheme, over priced school building project, and is it like all the other overpriced government incentives out there?

thats great maybe they could give us a mobile phone signal while there playing around with wires.oh i forgot you need a competent member of parliament representing you to get a telstra signal in this country.no joy for us here then

Desperate spending by Gillard Labor and the the Gang of Four and NSW Labor, here’s a tally of his failures with our tax dollars to date in case you missed it:
- BER poor value value and Unions: $6,000,000,000
- School Halls over budget: $1,700,000,000
- School Computers over budget: $1,200,000,000
- ETS: $90,000,000
- Medicare Overspend: $1,400,000,000
- Pharmaceutical Overspend: $1,800,000,000
- Solar Panel Overspend: $850,000,000
- NBN Tender failure: $32,000,000
- Insulation: $2,500,000,000
- Stimulus Cheques wasted: $40,000,000
- TV Station handout $250,000,000
- Grocery Watch: $10,000,000
- NT Housing program: $45,000,000
- 2020 summit?: $10,000,000
- Copenhagen: $1,500,000
- Whaling Envoy: $1,000,000
- 418 media advisors: $50,000,000
- Ambassador to Holy See: $10,000,000
- Fuel Watch: $8,500,000
- Economic refugees: $1,200,000,000
- Foreign Aid: $4,000,000,000
- Childcare: Failed 220 centres not delivered
- Cost of living (inflation): UP
- Interets rates: UP
- More taxes: Federal, State. Gas, water, rates, electricity.
- Foreign debt: $1,232,000,000,000
- Federal debt: $300,000,000,000

Instead of fast broadband next i think Keith Rhodes needs to spend some money on making the town presentable at the moment it is a shambles so drab and unkempt, surely tourists are important to Coffs Harbour how about ensuring they return , i am afraid if i was a tourist i wouldn't return. Yeah okay most businesses will benefit from the broadband but until the problem with flooding is rectified you cannot tell me that businesses are not looking elsewhere in case they are flooded out again. What is more important Keith Rhodes big noting yourself as you are one of the first to get Broadband or looking after the town and it's flooding problem

These Muppets canot even run our hospitals on the Nth coast and yet they can drop these scraps off the table to think we can be fooled. They cannot get bridges painted and goat tracks upgraded. The mobile companies cannot deliver mobile networks that work. Just rubbish. They think we are mushrooms and can be easily pleased. What about the people struggling on the Clarence that need support and jobs. Graduates that are forced to leave families and chase jobs away from home. What have they delivered in the past 15 years from NSW Labor and The Gang of Four in Canberra?

Well Mr. Rhoades this was ano brainer for you. Some one else did all the work for you, and all you had to do was smile with the current member for Page. You do nto have a long term of plan to fix the issues in the community and get people employed and give them self respect. Labor likes people getting handouts and being dependent on them. The fibre network also runs past Grafton, Maclean and many Nth Coast towns and yet they have been ignored, another political stink.

If we want to spend money to make the town more attractive so that the commercial sector can profit from impressed tourists, I suggest that the commercial sector foot the bill. As a retiree I resent the fact that the council just has to whistle to get a bigger slice of my income in order to make a name for themselves and benefit small groups with vested interests. As a community we do not need flowers in roundabouts nearly as much as I needed the $40 or $50 of mine that the council just helped themselves to. Oh and one more thing, Coffs Harbour has been flooding since before white settlement and here's a clue as to why, it's built on a flood plain.

Pure Politics: From the current member for Page "WE will be browsing the web in 3D, making video phone calls without a second thought, and streaming high-definition TV through the internet once the National Broadband Network hits the North Coast, the academic at the centre of the push to get the network here first has said.
However, even if we make it to the front of the queue, the network remains years away, Page MP Janelle Saffin has warned.
This week saw a big step forward in the campaign to have the North Coast, from the Great Lakes to the Tweed, among the first to get the full network with the announcement of a ‘nerve centre’ at Coffs Harbour.
The announcement does not guarantee the North Coast a spot at the front of the queue, but keeps us in the running."
All this will be at a very high cost, many on the Nth Coast cannot afford it. This is our tax payers money being squandered when we have so many other issue on the Nth Coast that have yet to be delivered.