At CommsDay Summit’s 2009 annual dinner the industry decided that a consortium was most likely to win the tender for Australia’s National Broadband Network (NBN).

With 34.1 percent of the industry deciding a consortium, a staggering 29.4 percent said nobody was going to win the NBN, suggesting a denouncement due next week from the Minister for Broadband Communications and the Digital Economy, Stephen Conroy.

The results were formed from a survey of readers of the popular CommsDay newsletter and magazine, mostly of whom are staff members of Australian ISPs and equipment providers. Many other questions were asked including what the industry thought about Senator Stephen Conroy’s ISP-level filtering scheme. 48 percent of those surveyed believed the policy formed a new Orwellian state and that it should be abandoned, whilst 26.63% thought it was a policy that was well-intentioned but remained technically unachievable.

When it came to how the industry was dealing with the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) 44.1 percent said they were expanding into new markets, 28.6% were re-negotiating with suppliers and 17.8 percent were dealing with no crisis at all.

So if the NBN does in fact get built, what method of access will be used? That’s another question that was posed to the industry who favoured Fibre To The Node.