Vendors closing in on 1Gbps using DSL

There you go, we can have it all for next to nothing.
Vendors agree.
And even if the copper is green. ANd its not, its ok for most for the next 40 years or more, far longer life span than the fibre or the massive cost of duplication our entire communications infrastructure.
Conroy's con job revealed, no asked us what we wanted or gave us a choice.
These global innovations in using existing access and alternative and advances in technology will all be denied to Australia/

@2 this one doesnt pay tax or read the papers. He is a call centre worker that thinks somehow he is correct and that when respected technology vendors state that 100mbs over normal coppper wire is quite within expectations in the next 5 years in the field, as they did, that he somehow knows better.
The existing network doesnt need to be doubled or houses moved or anything.
The NBN is a scam built on lies from day one that sucked in boofheads like @2 as evalangilists and NBN fan boy trolls. Well didnt this troll and others do a crap job of convincing the public. takeup <10%, no one wants it, sustained and increasing discontent - and now even THE VENDORS say this NBN is crap and isnt needed.
And yep, the NBN contributes to Global Warming, the largest wastage ever of embedded and then non productive material and energy so far in Australia with zero result. Just take 23m toxic batteries, all sucking off the grid. The NBN will warm up your day for you little man even if you cant make a useful digital or taxation contribution and just continue to bludge off the rest of us.

@3: How do you think your current telephone is powered in a blackout? By miracle power? The only difference with the NBN is that instead of there being a bank of massive lead-acid batteries in the exchange, there will be a little one in each house. Telstra currently have to replace them, and pay to keep them charged. All part of the cost you pay them for your 'line rental'. You may also note that Australian's dispose of twice as many lead-acid car batteries as they will NBN batteries, and they are considerably larger.

@1, 3, 4:

Look at the distances here people...300metres, 400metres!!! Practical ADSL speeds have been stuck at <24Mbps for 7 years now.

How many Australian homes do you think are within ~300 metres (in wire) of an exchange? Allowing for the wire used to route through the exchange, down into the ducts (or up the poles) and back into the house, then to the modem, we are talking about premises that are within maybe 200 metres of a telephone exchange, who may be able to achieve the experimental speeds quoted above.

These DSL upgrades are still band-aid solutions stretching the last few drops out of an old, obsolete technology. By contrast, 1Gbps is just the starting point for fibre. Existing technology sends over 100Gbps down a single fibre strand, so our rollout of a "1Gbps" NBN is just the start of futureproofing our data needs. In 50 years our NBN can likely be ramped up to 1Tbps and beyond, while copper will have gone the way of the dodo.

But, for all Australians who:
a) Live within 200-300m of a telephone exchange; AND
b) Already have 2 pairs of copper to their premises; AND
c) The copper is in good condition

....the above improvements in DSL tech would be great. The question is what portion of Australian premises meet the above 3 conditions? Maybe 10%? What about the rest of us?