I don't think that argument works anywhere near as well as you think it does:
- Interconnects between individual towns throughout Australia will each be a single fibre optic cable, and will be the same regardless of model. The vast majority of the cost is within towns/cities, not between them. This isn't a point of differentiation between FTTH and fraudband.
- One of the biggest headaches for the full FTTH roll-out was how to get the fibre to every apartment in existing high-rises. This is a problem that gets worse with high population density, not better. Personally I think the obvious thing there would be to run the so-called fibre-to-the-basement model - basically putting a connection into the basement of each building and letting the managers work out what to do from there, but I digress.
- The most sparsely populated regions of the country were the ones to be covered by fixed wireless or satellite, not by rolling out fibre.
