Sorry if this posted multiple times
You get what you are prepared and can pay for.. We could have done fibre to the home like every other country JUST IN HIGH DENSITY CITIES, however extending this into our vast rural areas is what blows out the total cost 1000 fold. Our weak politicians can't handle the rural people's complaining, so agree to roll out NBN to these areas first (most expensive, lowest yield, lowest financial return to Australian wtf). That's why you are still waiting for an NBN connection.
Just like a tree, it makes total sense to get the trunk established with huge capacity capability first, then the fibre branches out to as many locations as possible so EVERYONE can at least get a 10+Mbs connection..bring them up asap to the 21st century. You selfish assholes who are complaining you can't stream dual high definition Netflix before the majority of people even have basic adsl, is typical of wingeing Australians these days..
Making 1000 times as many branches (fibre to a note), to every key locality asap is what the coalition's NBN policy is all about.. ONCE that is done, then add as many leaves (fibre to the home) as YOU are prepared to pay for.. This is an exponentially larger number if you didn't realise and where the bulk of the cost is..
No matter what people here are trying to claim, you really don't need 100Mbs transfer rate for any normal data transfer OTHER THAN VIDEO.. You are just pulling yourself if you think you truly have a critical reason to send/receive a gigantic quantity of "non-video" data in seconds not minutes and at a $70 billion hit to our already busted national credit card..
The people bitching the most, don't have a clue how stuffed we and most nations currently financially.. Those comparing us to Americans Mbs connection speeds, do you know how big the American debt currently is.. It's Greece all over but too big for the world to have collapse, so they just keep spending.
I currently hate the coalition but on the NBN it's lower spend/speed to as many people asap approach is sensible and prudent, and if you NEED the faster connection, YOU can pay the extra cost of fibre to your home.. I don't need it.