The Federal Government is on a buy-a-vote spree. There's an election coming up on July 2 and they've sped up the roll-out of their idea of a National Broadband Network, Fibre-To-The-Node. The length of telephone cable between my dwelling & that node is used ADSL-style to provide PSTN & Broadband (or as we call it out here, Fraudband) and unlike some is barely 160 metres in length, so I'll be less-affected by signal loss over the non-fibre section.
I'm informed that the changeover date ftom ADSL 2+ to NBN will be this coming Friday and I can expect a few hours without internet as I'm switched from one service to the other. No wirk is needed on the existing copper cable out from the node. All existing ADSL equipment in my home will still be used so there's likely to be little disruption.
For that period of no wired internet I'll still gave a goodly proportion of the 5.5 GB mobile connection which can be shared if needed.