[LINK] How fast is the NBN?

[Andy Farkas]

> All we get is a guarantee of a lousy "up to" 25Mbps.

And to top it off we are paying an unknown huge amount of money
to keep the FTTN up to scratch:

< 
http://www.businessspectator.com.au/article/2016/2/26/technology/counting-costs-nbn-copper>

"NBN Co boss Bill Morrow found himself in a spot of bother recently
when asked to confirm that that the company is likely to need close
to 25,544km of new copper to complete the Fibre to the Node (FTTN)
component of the National Broadband Network (NBN).

'I do not know' was Morrow’s response to the question..."

-andyf