Labor Waste

 More proof why Labor should have conducted a cost-benefit analysis on the NBN:  

THE government company rolling out the National Broadband Network has more staff than it does customers. NBN Co, which has 784 staff, has at most 607 customers after Julia Gillard and Communications Minister Stephen Conroy launched the first NBN site on the mainland in Armidale yesterday, with just seven users. And none of the network’s users is a paying customer yet.

Opposition communications spokesman Malcolm Turnbull last night seized on the figures, declaring them further proof that the government should have done a cost-benefit analysis of the $36 billion project. Given the “great hoopla” when the Prime Minister connected seven customers in Armidale, Mr Turnbull said, “who knows what tumultuous celebrations will occur when the NBN’s customers actually exceed their staff”.

“It will be possibly declared a national holiday,” he said.

Read the rest here: More staff than customers on NBN books | The Australian.

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