Things hot up over NBN

Surprisingly, the petition to FFS don't give us cheap broadband infrastucture has really taken off. To the point in fact that MP Malcolm Turnbull who's the incoming minister responsible, has responded on his blog to the petition and has also rang Nick Paine who started the petition. Although from the sounds of it they're still living in the internet dark ages. Nick Paine comments in his email update:

On Friday, after a quarter of a million people signed our petition, Malcolm Turnbull responded on his blog, and gave me a call.

We spoke about the different NBN options available, and I made it clear that there is a ground swell of Australians, from all sides of politics, who want to see him reconsider how he deals with this.

I was a little frustrated as he seemed to suggest that we don’t understand. He suggested we wait, read his report, and then we’d get it.

I’m not sure that he understands.

The petition itself has become something of a record breaker, with one Australian signing every three and a half seconds. It's now about a quarter of a million signatures, an amount not to be sneezed at given our population of only 23 million.  

The NBN petition calls on the incoming coalition government to scrap its plans to create a fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) network in place of Labor's existing fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) approach. 

Created by Queenslander Nick Paine on Change.org less than five days ago, the petition overtook Australia's previous biggest online petition just after 11am (AEST) on Wednesday with 116,281 signatures. The prior one had 116,280 names. 

That's one signature every 3.5 seconds. more