[telemarker (Keith)]

While not directly related to the preference of any particular element, my gripe is with how copper has been deployed in the past. My wife and I built our house in the first suburb of Gungahlin in the north of Canberra in '93. Not long after we moved in someone came around offering a trial of the "best" internet access in Oz (a trial/research project between a university and a service provider/cable co.), never happenned. What we got instead was Telstra's vision of the future, copper to a RIM. Fast forward 17 years and the best we can get is still ADSL 1, even though there are plenty of ADSL 2 ports available at the local exchange (a mere 1 km away) and has been for years. We, and many in our area, cannot connect to the available ADSL 2 ports because of the RIM technology that was installed. Apparently, we'll be one of the first cabs off the rank with the NBN on the mainland (independents permitting).

To paraphrase Chris...... Bring it ON, I say!