You have to have permission from the home owner to switch them over from ADSL to VDSL and to give them a new modem. Here in Australia the plan was to run Fibre

You have to have permission from the home owner to switch them over from ADSL to VDSL and to give them a new modem. Here in Australia the plan was to run Fibre to the outside wall termination point on each person's house by default (opt out). Then someone comes shortly after to patch it through the wall etc if and when the customer wants it. There was no legal hooplah at all.