Australias newest, most high-end infrastructure for internet access, the NBN, is based on a mix of 100 year old Telstra copper for last mile (in reality last 4

Australias newest, most high-end infrastructure for internet access, the NBN, is based on a mix of 100 year old Telstra copper for last mile (in reality last 4 or 5 mile) connections, 40 year old HFC cable if you're lucky, and if you happened to be really lucky and in an opposition party area when it was originally planned, a little bit of fibre in neighbourhoods. Its an abysmal abuse of the phrase 'cost-savings' as its crippling any attempt to introduce new, more advanced services that need more than about 20mbit continuously...