I am sure you are right Michael, and the fact that we have turned old copper cable into high speed data transmission lines is testament to that point.
The main issue for me is cost. After all if 4G works and has the same speed then fibre is obviously the wrong way as its cost of installation is zero vs $43bn as the telecoms companies are all vying to do the work. Fibre is certainly the right infrastructure on trunk lines and maybe even to the exchange. But to tell the aussie public that they will all get this thing and not pay a dollar is just ridiculous.
I said this two months ago - unless you are downloading media or running big servers you will not use the bandwidth, and the bottlenecks at the major routers means that the bandwidth is not as high the whole way through the internet which means that real bandwidth is going to be not much better than existing ADSL. Which makes this an absolute turkey of a scheme to flog to the electorate.
If the independents actually back this rubbish they should be ashamed of themselves as it will stop real projects in australia being developed through lack of funds.
