You’d have to have been living under a rock to have not heard this week’s broadband announcement. During one of his rare visits to this country, Kevin Rudd said his government has ditched the NBN tender process and, instead, the government will build its own fibre-to-the-home solution as a private-public partnership.

So is this a good thing? The industry at large seems to say yes. The Opposition is less sold on the idea, as you’ll hear from Nick Minchin.

Here’s the line-up of guests on this week’s Twisted Wire:

• Simon Hackett, MD of Internode
• Senator Nick Minchin, shadow communications minister
• Anne Hurley, CEO of the Communications Alliance
• Ravi Bhatia, CEO of Primus

First published on ZDNet