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 depend

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.