In case your authorities had decided to install a nationwide, open-access fiber-to-the-home network to 93 percent of all residents, when the installation was no cost,
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But people's reluctance to sign consent forms could add serious costs and delays to the entire project. And if everyone will be hooked up eventually, why not just make the fiber installations mandatory now? That's the direction in which Australia is moving. Conroy and the Tasmanian Premier, David Bartlett, are now both talking about ways to shift to an "opt-out" model where the NBN Co. has the proper to install in your house unless you explicitly object. Opposition figures in Tasmania have been pushing the idea for more than a month. "I am sure there would be plenty of people that would not want the government rolling up onto their property and installing fibre without permission,
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