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THE MONARO POST EXCLUSIVE
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Pictured meeting the Shadow Minister for Telecommunications, Malcolm Turnbull and Liberal candidate Peter Hendy, on Monday are, from left, Caroline Carter, Margaret Haylock, Sue Litchfield, Margaret Weston, Noel Carter and Peter Haylock.
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with an emphasis on areas or higher demand, e.g. commercial areas, or hospitals given priority. Areas of less demand, such as residential areas, would also have a choice to be connected to the system, but could retain their existing copper wire services of they did not want high speed broadband. Mr Turnbull said the take-up of the NBN to date was 33,600 users, including 2,500 ‘brown field’ (existing areas) and 13,100 ‘green field’ (new areas). He said claims made by the Federal Government that broadband services could come for free were false. He said any service would be offered by a provider, who would charge for that service. He said under the Coalition proposal, services to residences would be about threequarters of the cost of the NBN. “By providing a service at lesser cost to government, customers will also pay less”, Mr Turnbull said. NBN Forum Member for EdenMonaro, Mike Kelly also held a telecommunications forum in Cooma on Sunday. Forty-four people attended the forum and asked questions of the member.
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Shadow Minister for Communications and Broadband, Malcolm Turnbull, was in Cooma on Monday to support Liberal candidate Peter Hendy. Mr Turnbull spoke at a forum on the Liberal’s telecommunications plans. He and Mr Hendy had spent a day in the region, visiting Jindabyne prior to a street walk in Cooma. In an exclusive interview with The Monaro Post, Mr Turnbull said the Coalition could provide broadband which would be more affordable than that proposed by Labor. He said the original concept floated by Kevin Rudd in 2007 would have seen broadband provided with subsidies to rural and regional areas. This was changed in 2008, when, Mr Turnbull said, Mr Rudd and then Communications Minister Stephen Conroy “decided to build a new telecommunications system”, to be completed in 10 years, which was originally estimated to cost $4.7 billion, but was most recently costed at $43 billion, although the Coalition believes that cost is nearer $93 billion. Mr Turnbull said the difference between the two schemes was that under the Coalition, broadband would be provided to the node,
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