Ah, you think Germany is bad? In Australia we have the choice of Telstra for phone. Well, in Germany Deutsche Telekom used to run HFC as well, until they were

Ah, you think Germany is bad? In Australia we have the choice of Telstra for phone. Well, in Germany Deutsche Telekom used to run HFC as well, until they were forced to sell it off by the EU back when they were privatised. That didn't happen in Australia. And so we have the choice of Telstra for HFC as well. There's another HFC network that was built by Optus, with the anticipation of Telstra overbuilding about 22% of it. Telstra overbuilt to a level of 80% dual coverage. So that's pretty much killed Optus' HFC network, which is about to shut down, NBN or no NBN, quite soon. No wonder then, given all that, that last time we moved it took about 5 weeks just to get the phone line in. In fact, it's a shitfest every single time anyone moves in Australia. And the newly elected Coalition's thing is not likely to be going to fix this, at all.