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Good to see this one up on HN.

I've been running http://www.weneedthenbn.com/ since Saturday night, and it's been getting a bit of traction, too.

My phone call to my local MP wasn't exactly promising - while I couldn't talk directly to the MP (although I didn't expect to), the person who answered seemed generally uninterested in anything that I had to say, and was unaware of the technical differences (other than "the LNP plan is cheaper").

I hope we can make a difference here, and there seems to be a lot of support for it. Even if 1% of the people who signed the petition called/emailed/wrote to their local member, we might have a chance of making a difference.



> the LNP plan is cheaper

I've heard that it's cheaper to build, but significantly more complicated and expensive to run because of the maintenance of the copper network and the fact that the nodes require power under the LNP NBN, but not the ALP NBN.

(I'd like confirmation/anti-confirmation of this if anyone happens to know more.)


If you want you could add a link to your site and send me a pull: https://github.com/KoryNunn/iwantthenbn


Make a time to see your MP. Talking to a staffer on the phone is hit-and-miss.




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