[AusNOG] News: Minister Conroy contemplating Government-Funded undersea cable?

[Tim Warnock]

> Communications minister Stephen Conroy has threatened to fund a new
> submarine link between Australia and the US out of the National Broadband
> Network budget if international pricing does not fall to reasonable levels.
> 
> Discuss!

Interesting - add that to a possible nextgen sale.

NBN owning all the things?