[shard972]

> And now the budget is still blowing out, only we have shitty infrastructure that's going to be obsolete almost as soon as it's installed.

How will to be obsolete? Everything upto the node is fiber so if it was made obsolete it also would have been obsolete under the original plan.

If your talking about the copper, we aren't digging it up and replacing it with copper. It's just going to stay there a bit longer until it gets upgraded by the user themselves or possibly a another roll out down the line.

What part of the roll out gets wasted? The cabinets they roll out can still handle FTTP, so I don't know what you think will become "obsolete".

[boyter]

There is no upgrade path from the node with the way they are rolling it out. Doubt me? Ask NBN yourself and see if you get a reply.

They are rolling it out as cheaply as possible with no thought about upgrade. They are not running additional fibre to the node only what the node requires. That's why the quotes for the technology choice program are so high, it's not fibre back to the node but all the way to the exchange.

[imron]

The FTTN part won't be obsolete, it will be the copper cables limiting speeds and making my Internet connection drop out when it rains.

By the time the rollout is finished, they're going to need to upgrade to FTTP anyway.

They should have done it properly once. It would've been easier, cheaper and technologically superior.