nbn™ says nobody needs gigabit internet, trumpets XG-Fast at 8Gbps anyway

Placating fibre fetishists has nbna in a twist and distracts us from bigger issues

nbna, the organisation building and operating Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN), has announced trials of fibre-to-the-curb and broadband-over-copper technology XG-fast that hit 8Gbps on 30 metres of copper in lab trials, and "5Gbps peak aggregate speed being achieved over 70 metres of twisted-pair copper"."