Without knowing what is actually in the contracts, the main difference now is that they will actually own the copper and HFC networks. If that actually means they are free to decommission and repalce them with fibre is really just speculation, problem is in the case of the copper, you have to replace it then decommission it not the other way around.
The HFC networks are another kettle of fish too complications wise. OPtus for instance have a lot of commercial services (Other than HFC based ones) on the fibre that provides the transmission of the HFC network, I would assume that the fibre does not end up owned by NBN as a result.
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