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You've completely missed the point of the NBN. One reason for installing fiber is because it's superior infrastructure. It's not simply a gigabit network and g

You've completely missed the point of the NBN. One reason for installing fiber is because it's superior infrastructure. It's not simply a gigabit network and gigabit speed is a irrelevant. Fiber will happily transmit hundreds of terrabits per second given the right endpoint hardware. It's install once and reap the benefits for many, many decades. Another reason is because you don't know what innovations will arise from pervasive fiber connectivity until you have it and there is a ready market for those innovations. Just like mobile phones unlocked all manner of innovations no-one could foresee. Australia could have been at the forefront of internet connectivity, instead they have a third rate network for billions of dollars spent, all due to political interference.

daemin 7y ago
It would also have made the entire network more or less homogeneous, meaning that you wouldn't need to use different companies and different technologies depending on which street you lived in. Though I would say that apartment buildings in the metro areas could have just used Fibre to the basement, that would have been fine. Let the building landlords upgrade the connectivity based on demand from the occupants. Also because a lot of attention had been fixated on the speed of the infrastructure, that let the Liberal party call it overbuilding and unnecessary, and now we have a dog's breakfast of shitty technologies used. Meaning a varied network street by street, house by house, all a mess, and nobody has a clear understanding of what the NBN is meant to be.