I can see $16 billion being spent importing switches from China...And Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull on the same subject...
The non-blogging MSM have been extremely slow off the mark on Kevnet, which already has the strong whiff of a major stuff-up about it.The assertions [Rudd] made in his announcement and which he used to solicit investments from the public are not supported by a business plan, a financial study, advice from Infrastructure Australia or, so far as we know, anything other than his desire to get a big headline (it worked)...
Consider the Cross City Tunnel in Sydney. It cost nearly $1 billion to build; today, after a bankruptcy and its shareholders losing their investment, it is worth a fraction of that. Why? Because the owners' traffic assumptions proved to be wildly optimistic.
UPDATE: More about the technical difficulties from BOAB.
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And I forgot to add that whilst the fibre doesn't wear out very quickly, the switches have a finite life. For tax and depreciation reasons, they probably have a life of 4-5 years; and you generally can't get support on them past that age anyway.
So you are up for a $16 switch bill every 5 years - and the whole lot will have to be imported.
Rudd gets what from China?
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