Indeed that is an intended part of the plan -there are provisions in the design and development of the NBN process to have installers use the copper as a draw-string to pull in a fibre lead-in where that is possible.

It saddens me to see the liberals pushing their policy with such blatent gaps in their policy, while also arguing greater transparency.

If they were serious, they would be talking about the fact their upload speeds are much lower, their costs are not even close given the additional’s brought on by the Telstra renegotiation, powered noded, maintenance etc and the figure they are using now for the Labour NBN costs is made up by Malcolm T on the spot but is being touted as fact (Our local MP here even used it to do a cost comparison to us in an email response)

@Simonhackett, cheers for sharing this presentation, i dont suppose you have the Q&A questions written down? Some are not very clear (your answers are fine, just their questions)

Also, your wordpress register link seems to be broken and I cant log in to reply to people with a facebook account

Liberal Policy is not about FTTN at all. FTTN is just a cheap and fast “filler” for areas of Australia that are not being serviced some other way.
Satellite remains.
Fixed wireless remains.
Greenfield FTTH remains.
FTTH On-demand (i.e. for anyone who wants to have it) remains.
HFC (and we know that EuroDOCSIS can do 1Gb/s services, as needed) will be recovered and provide service for 2.2million homes, immediately.

All that is changing is that the difficult brownfields services are being given a fast and cheap alternative to get some kind of service upgrade to everyone in the short term (say 5 to 8 years).

Fanbois bitch about the FTTN cabinets in the street. Yes they’re ugly. Essentially, they’re providing centralised networked power to drive the copper tail for all FTTN subscribers. Cabinets are ugly, but they’re very maintainable, and upgradable at low cost and have low impact on consumers. The current FTTH solution is putting an unmaintainable ugly lead acid battery IN MY LOUNGEROOM! (And, forcing me to pay for the power for their service too. I’m used to getting my POTS power for free.)

And, if (when) the FTTH battery is dead your lifeline services are affected. It is part of every NBNCo service agreement that it is not their liability, if your battery is dead, you can’t make a call, and therefore you die!

I’d rather have someone professional maintaining my (mother’s / great aunt’s / disabled friend’s) lifeline services battery and have it somewhere where it can be properly maintained to deliver a known grade of service.

Oh, and the famous diagram with 1Gb/s FTTH services on it, with everything else miles below. Nice picture. You could have added HFC services up there at 1Gb/s too, but you chose not to.

But paying for these 1Gb/s services is another story.

The NBNCo has gazetted their 100Mb/s prices in a SAU with the ACCC, and their prices will be INCREASED annually by CPI (-1.5%) for 27 YEARS. That means in 27 years we’ll be paying much more than today (compound it up, I dare you) for the same service. They need to lock in this price to pay for their network. Don’t imagine that Moore’s law is going to apply here. 27 years ago was 1986, and then 9600 baud was looking pretty good. How will 100Mb/s look in 2040? Now, how much is then 1Gb/s going to cost, if 100Mb/s has a fixed price for the next 27 years? Good question. You got any unwanted children you can sell?

The Labour NBN plan is unbuildable. There are not the fibre splicers in the country we need to achieve the required daily rate build rate. NBN Co contractors (to get their contracts in the first place) are paying lowest rates in the market. Anyone with any skills is working on the mines in WA, fly in fly out. Not camping in the truck, schlepping around the country digging trenches. This was apparent back in 2010. Blind Freddy could have predicted the situation the NBNCo is in now, with missed delivery targets.

In 15 years, Conroy might be remembered for the man who thought of NBN. But Turnbull will be remembered as the one who saved it, and actually delivered it.