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Fibre, what's that?
A government on its last legs promised FTTP, but they knew they wouldn't have to deliver; they couldn't even install pink batts in peoples rooves without killing the workers. So when the next government came in one of the first things they did was to scrap FTTP in favour of cobbling something together using the existing cable TV HFC infrastructure where it existed - which is practically everywhere in the major towns and cities. NIH syndrome + Murdochitis.
I think fibre is being used on new housing and industrial estates and in commercial zones (that's been true for decades, I recall AMP getting some fibre links in the mid eighties) - or where there's a lots of high density redevelopment. But even there I'm not sure of it's FTTP or FTTN with copper tails.
The reason I would have had to bear the high up front costs is because I don't live in what the NBN regard as the principle residence, it's legacy from the days when the PMG ran the phone networks and you had to pay through the nose for a second telephone line. The NBN 'own' the physical network, the ISPs rent bandwidth and sell it, so consumers don't normally have to deal with the NBN directly or even indirectly - the install costs would have been billed by my ISP.
I might have been willing to pay for a fibre connection, but not for an HFC Cable TV copper connection - given I watch naff all television. You can get fibre if you want it - but it will cost you $,000s. Apartment block reburshments get it that way, the developer recovers the costs when they sell the refurbished units - if there not already sold off plan.
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