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Saw that write up yesterday just before seeing this thread come back alive. Great to finally see a prospective launch date, even better to see it this year, as little as a week ago people were talking about both going up next year.
Now I just wish they could get the rest of the damn think working properly, to my knowledge they have not really even gone beyond limited trials of the new FTTN product and I see all sorts of issues popping up. Like the fact that so far it does not appear that they can just kick off all other carriers from a node when they install one, so if people have a service with iinet (For instance) who happen to have a DSLAM in the exchange that node was connected to, it could be two years or so before all customers are in the "Get on the NBN infrastructure or loose service" basket.
The upshot of that is by what I have seen, the much vaunted savior of copper (Vectoring) will not be able to be switched on for up to a couple of years after a node is commissioned. That means that VDSL may well deliver slower speeds than those currently available to a lot of people for several years!
Pretty much says that it will not be until people are forced to change over that it will happen, who would want to drop from say 18mbps download rate to 12 for two years while waiting for the forced migration date to roll around to get "Foreign" services out of the copper bundle so vectoring can do it's thing?
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