Auditor General says Conroy breached broadband tender requirements: opposition

Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Friday, 23 May 2008 15:41

IT Industry - Tenders

Billson’s press release on the topic, dated the 23rd of May 2008, is oddly, for a Communications Spokesperson, not yet on his page at the Liberal Party website.

As of late 23rd May, 7.20pm, it’s not there, so I can’t link to it for you, but as I’ve reprinted it here it doesn’t matter, for now. Billson’s page is otherwise here.

Whether Senator Stephen Conroy has indeed breached his own tender requirements or not, and whether Bruce Billson is correct or not, the Federal Government does appear to have been needlessly rushing the tender proposal process for the National Broadband Network on political grounds.

Given that the network is of national importance for decades to come, the 12 week extension for the RFP process is a good policy for the new Communications Minister and we can only hope it will result in a national broadband network that delivers data at 100Mbps speeds, not 12Mbps speeds, at prices we can all afford.