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+1 In Australia, my DOCSIS 3.0 is 90Mbps down and 1.8Mbps up. And the government has announced they will rip up the cable and give everyone 25-50Mbps down and 4-5Mbps up.

Everybody here thinks it's a joke, unfortunately it's not. http://abbottsinternet.com.au/

For this I currently pay about $75 per month. Sigh.

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> And the government has announced they will rip up the cable and give everyone 25-50Mbps down and 4-5Mbps up.

The government needs to re-negotiate it's deal with Telstra, and I expect the HFC network remaining with Telstra as a wholesaler monopoly will be a part of that.

No-one has said they're going to "rip up" the HFC cable. It was to be decommissioned under the old NBN plan and it's future hasn't been decided under the new.

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