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Originally Posted by doppler
My copper from the pit in the street out front to the house is not good, do I have to pay for a cabler to replace the wires from the street to my modem, and then pay again when they upgrade the network to fibre to the premises?
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If you are getting FTTN or FTTC, they will try to re-use the existing copper phone lines. (Other MTM technologies do not use the existing phone lines.)
NBN is responsible for the entire connection up to and including the point of connection within the home. You should not need to do anything about getting the copper out to the street upgraded. If they are able to achieve 25 Mbps when the connection is made, they will declare the job a "success"; if not, they may replace the copper, or declare your property to be a problem ("more work is required") which they will get back to eventually (by 2020 - or maybe later ...)
Note that the deployment is actually being carried out by contractors, and they have some discretion as to exactly what remedial work they will do in each area in which they work - but in general, they are paid on a per-premises basis, so they will try to get in and out as quickly as possible, and in practice, this means a lot of "difficult" homes are skipped in the initial roll-out.