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Australia started rolling out a national fibre network but part way through decided to cut costs and switch to a copper VDSL solution instead.
Everyone is being forced to move from the established, typically overengineered carrier provided ADSL network, to the national network's brand new, shitty and unstable VDSL based solution. It gets worse, because it's also replacing the overengineered analog phone system with a VOIP based solution. When the broadband network fails, or the power goes out for more than a few hours, no one is able to make phone calls.
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