"I live in Tassie and no for a fact that you can get the base...

"I live in Tassie and no for a fact that you can get the base plans for just $29/month (15GB at 25 Mbps), which is way faster and way cheaper than existing services. A perfect plan for the average home user."

Optus offer the same for $39, but is not subsidised massively by the taxpayer.

"And anyone who thinks wireless could take over fibre is tripping. A few ISP's went down this morning in the bad weather and the wireless networks crawled to dial-up speeds."

If setup correctly bad weather does not affect speeds.

"You'd need a mobile tower on over street and flotila of satelites to cope with everyone using wireless broadband. Its a fools solution - especially over the long term where satellite and tower maintenace costs would become astronomical."

Don't need satellites, just need fiber to go to the existing mobile towers which can be upgraded to 4G.

Tower maintenance is minuscule compared to re-laying millions of kilometers of cable every 20 years at $40 billion a pop.