t's like arguing that it's more cost-effective to a build a single-lane Sydney Harbour Bridge, while conveniently ignoring the fact that it won't meet our future needs. It's a short-sighted approach which looks good in a spreadsheet but is designed to win a political argument rather than meet the future needs of the country. Comparing the cost of fibre-to-the-node to fibre-to-the-premises overlooks a few key issues which seriously impact on the value proposition; maintaining the copper network fixing copper black spots upgrading and maintaining the HFC network extending the fibre network later to meet growing demand

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/computers/gadgets-on-the-go/government-lowballing-us-on-secondrate-nbn-20140829-109vvg.html