For those unfamiliar with the current state of Internet service in Australia:<p>The current government has founded a company called NBNco (National Broadband Network Company) to connect 93% of Australian homes via fibre. The remaining will be covered with a fixed-wireless and Satellite.<p>This comes at a cost of $44b and completion date of 2021.<p>The opposition party has just announced their plan, which is to connect 22% of households directly to fibre, 71% via fibre to the node, utilising the existing copper network for the last few hundred metres, 4% via fixed wireless, and ~3% via satellite.<p>This comes at a cost of $30b and completion by the end of 2016.<p>What it comes down to is, should the Australian people be spending an extra $14b and five years to connect 71% more of the population directly to fibre?<p>A lot of the discussion revolves around whether people really need > 100mb/sec (FttH), or whether >25mb/sec (FttN) is suitable for the next "x" years of technology.