The federal opposition has vowed to scrap the coalition's National Broadband Network and resume Labor's original fibre-to-the-premises plan.
It says it will spend exactly the same amount of public money on the N-B-N as the government, capping total funding at $57 billion, but roll out fibre-to-the-premises to an extra two million homes and businesses.
Opposition Communications Spokesman Jason Clare told the ABC Labor's plan will almost double access for Australian consumers using fibre optics.
Households already connected to the national broadband network through copper could get moved onto the full fibre-to-the-premises model if federal Labor wins the election.
It wants to deliver fibre all the way to an extra two million homes and businesses.
And within the first term of a Shorten government, Infrastructure Australia would be commissioned to investigate how those already connected to the fibre-to-the-node network could be moved over to fibre-to-the-premises.
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten said the coalition's NBN had blown out from $29.5 billion to $56 billion.
Labor says the cost of fibre-to-the node has increased from $600 per house to $1600 under the coalition, whereas the cost of fibre was going down.
As Labor's communications spokesman Jason Clare says a family in Victoria last week told him they were taking their children to McDonald's every night, not for the food but for the wi-fi.
