Today’s release of an extremely limited version of NBN Co’s normal corporate plan starkly demonstrates that Malcolm Turnbull’s absurd ‘Multi-Technology Mix’ has thrown the company into chaos.

NBN Co normally releases a detailed corporate plan every two to three years. This document is key to giving the public and the Government a solid idea of what to expect from the company for the next three years.

While NBN Co doesn’t always get everything right, especially its relationships with its construction partners, its previous corporate plans have shown that the company was strongly on track to delivering the best possible broadband network to all Australians, using the Fibre to the Premises technology, which represents the only truly long-term solution to Australia’s current and future broadband needs.

The corporate plan released by NBN Co this morning looks just seven months ahead to mid-2015, with NBN Co bizarrely stating that it could not predict the future of its broadband rollout even to 2016 or 2017.

NBN Co stated in its report that Turnbull’s laughable ‘Multi-Technology Mix’ plan, which would see Australians literally on the other side of the street from each other using radically different broadband technologies (some of which NBN Co itself has acknowledged will need upgrading within five years), had caused a deep degree of uncertainty in its operations.

Most of the targets which NBN Co plans to achieve – including the goal of reaching some one million premises with the NBN by mid-2015 – have nothing to do with the Coalition but are merely a continuation of the original FTTP NBN policy, developed by Labor and supported by the Greens.

It’s time Malcolm Turnbull got back to basics and started delivering the NBN that Australians want. There is no need to use questionable legacy technologies, split NBN Co up into mini-companies competing with each other or sell it off to the private sector.

All we need is one company, delivering fibre almost everywhere throughout Australia, with satellite and wireless to cover the gaps. It’s that simple, it’s what Australians want, and it’s time for the Abbott Government to get on with the job of delivering it.