It's a shame that Shadow Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull reacted to the news of Labor's impending satellite launch with his usual knee-jerk negativity, since the news actually presented a rare opportunity to turn a Labor NBN policy move into a Coalition policy win. The biggest issue with the satellite launch is that the birds are being purchased to service just 3 per cent of Australia's households, or around 200,000 premises that lie so far from rural centres that even fixed wireless isn't economical. Turnbull wasted no time before doing the maths : amortise the $2 billion cost across that limited number of premises, and you find out that this part of the NBN will cost over $10,000 per property.

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Satellite-hating Libs blow policy free kick