What's wrong with Australia's national broadband network? That's a hoary old chestnut which has been asked and answered many times over the last five years or more, so when the ABC ran a programme asking the same question, it could only come up with the same answers as before. But in much less detail.

Switching the national broadband network to using fibre-to-the-distribution-point technology is an interim solution; the correct solution, which will cost about the same, is to go full fibre.

Plans by the company rolling out the national broadband network to implement dynamic line management on its fibre-to-the-node and fibre-to-the-basement connections in early 2018 have been termed as something akin to putting lipstick on a pig by the former chief executive of NBN Co, Mike Quigley.