Infrastructure pipeline runs dry as NBN rolls off

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Via Bartho:

The national broadband network is on track, both in terms of the rollout of the network and its financials. That will really complicate matters for Labor if it wants to change either.

With more than 4.6 million premises activated and another 8.1 million ready to connect, NBN Co has only three million more premises to go to complete the rollout and says it is on schedule to achieve that by June next year.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.