Submission by [Name Redacted] to Communications Sector Market Study
My points to this study are very brief. They concern the deliberate politicisation of Labor's NBN rollout by the incoming LNP Government to the detriment of Australia as a whole and to the detriment of a visionary national infrastructure project. My points are as follows:

1. Despite some (very) poor contracting deals enacted by Labor's FTTH project, the very act of switching models mid-stream was bound to be a problem for everyone. Changing to the FTTN option required the drafting of technical specifications for the powering of the nodes, a large and complex project that was not needed at all under the FTTH option.

2. The switch to FTTN is a switch to a patently inferior hybrid model. Copper is inherently inferior to Fibre for internet transmission, and a hybrid version requiring interraction and inter-connection between two different modes of transmission can only introduce complications. And, as has been noted ad nauseum, Telstra's copper system is at the end of its useful life anyway.

3. FTTN needs powered nodes on street corners, which FTTH did not. Will this affect internet availability during power outages and flood events? I have not heard a definitive opinion on this in the Press.

4. Australia has slipped from 30th to 60th in the world for internet speeds, an indictment on Government policy. Australia, depsite its size, is actually one of  the most urbanised populations on the planet. There is no excuse for a First World urbanised population to be this far down the internet speed list.