Malcolm Turnbull suggests resident move house for decent broadband

COMMUNICATIONS Minister Malcolm Turnbull has taken to Twitter to tell a woman she should move houses if she wants a decent broadband connection. Does this mean the NBN is dead?

What do you mean all Aussies can’t afford to just move to Mosman?

WANT broadband? Get up and move house.

That’s what Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull effectively says we should do.

Mr Turnbull took the time last night to reply to a rural Aussie called Julia Keady who feels like she has been let down by the Communications Minister’s NBN rollout.

@SaysJuliaKeady just curious:- if connectivity was so vital to you why did you buy a house where there was no broadband available?

— Malcolm Turnbull (@TurnbullMalcolm) March 20, 2014

In other words: “Move somewhere else if you want usable broadband”.

For those who are unaware, Malcolm Turnbull is the man who is meant to be responsible for delivering the National Broadband Network to Australia, especially to those who live in a rural area. Just earlier this month he put out a report card for the nation’s broadband connections and promised a new fibre connection to those rural areas worst affected, which seems like the exact type of place that Julia Keady is living.

Turnbull says that his “optimised” NBN is the “way of the future”, but it appears that means only in certain areas.

Which you’ll have to move to if you want NBN access.

@TurnbullMalcolm @SaveTheNBN Broadband is available.We're not that silly! But no ports left in exchange. No incentive for telcos!

— Julia Keady (@SaysJuliaKeady) March 20, 2014

This isn’t the first time Turnbull has broken election promises. Originally he stated that all Aussies would get a 25Mbps internet connection by 2016, but now less than half of us will. That problem simply isn’t solved by packing the family and moving house.

It didn’t take long for Twitter to take aim at Turnbull either, with the hashtag #turnbulllogic soon popping up with a few of these gems.

If stopping the boats is so important to you, why do you live in a country accessible by boat? #turnbulllogic

— Jenna Guillaume (@JennaGuillaume) March 21, 2014

But in all seriousness, if the man responsible for bringing this country into a world-class digital age is suggesting we should just move houses to access it, what hope do we have that the NBN will actually come to be?

There are some today suggesting that Mr Turnbull could spend less time sending snarky comments on Twitter and more time living up to his promises.