They're going to build it no matter what.

Why spend $29b on one plan, when they could spend $43b on another plan that is 10 times better, cheaper to run and maintain, not out of date when its completed and to top it off not need to spend billions of dollars again to upgrade because you still have inferior and unreliable copper in the ground?

guess how the ISP and the mobile towers are linked:
a) magic b) more radio waves which creates more congestions c) wires

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The top 10 benefits of the NBN
Households will be $3,800 richer by 2020 thanks to speedy broadband like NBN: report - ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Or the Liberals can come to their senses and admit the FTTP is a better solution.

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Yeah...I know, it's my job.

Merely saying 4G is on excess of 100Mb/s (yes I know about congestion slowing it down) but 5G is already being tested. Who knows what the technology will be in 5 years, not downplaying the quality of fibre for transmission but the cost to install it in every street....faaark.

Edit: cost to install it all compared to the amount of people who would actually utilise it to the full capacity. I wonder how many people will actually pay for the top speed or the base 12Mb/s on offer. Fibre for business districts, new suburb/developments, suburbs with suitable pit & pipe for a start but these older suburbs & direct buried areas are a big cost.

If I can get VDSL2 on FTTN, and get a GOOD speed, i would be pretty happy.
The aging copper concerns me.

I've seen inside the pit out the front of my house, and it's hard to believe ADSL even works, let alone trying to push it even harder.

Fibre is the way forward long term.

I don't like the idea of dozens and dozens of "nodes" being propped up around my neighborhood either.

Here would be nice. Oh and fast internet too!

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To be honest I want lag free gaming, good ping to overseas, good download and upload speeds for multitasking EG. Skype and games or YouTube and Skype etc, without lag on either end. I'd just love to have a stable lag free connection that is near par to the rest of the world.

To the people whining about piracy, it's been around forever, people have only just jumped on the mainstream piracy bandwagon so that's why everyone is obsessed with it, just like gaming, was uncool and nerdy like 5-10 years ago, now days everyone is like "omg see my awesome trick shot in cod that I uploaded in YouTube last night?"

I'm an avid gamer, have been around the pro circuit and been sponsored, I'd just love to be able to to stand in par with other countries competitively. Countries will always be in debt no matter what you do.. As soon as currency was created people were in debt, there's nothing that can be done, sure you can make the debt smaller but you can't fix it, it's like driving a brand new car out of the lot, won't be seeing the price you bought it for ever again in return.

Just give me my damn Internet this third rate bullshit is grinding my gears!

Then move to one of the greenfields already operating or pay your own way & have a fibre hauled up to your house if it means that much to you.

I'm in one of the newer suburbs that came with a fibre network... Telstra smart community. Speed test is regularly above 90mbps, never had connection issues (apart from a couple of routers shitting themselves in storms) and can load updates/videos/streaming/downloads pretty quick. Usually it's the server that is the limiting factor for speed.

And my service costs no more than what my parents pay at their place with their standard ADSL...