Mazerski is against pulling the plug on the copper network.

"My experience says that's just a dumb thing to do," he told ARN. "Somebody is going to have to step up and decide what is good for the customer, not what is good for the NBN, Telstra or any other particular carrier -- even Primus.

"... I would only agree with switching off the copper if it made economic sense and I don't believe it does."

What he doesn't like about this plan is it essentially forces consumers to use fibre and deprives them of choice. It doesn't allow people to say no to fibre even if they are happy with their current arrangements and don't want to go through the trouble of changing services, Mazerski said.

"Fibre is not for everybody," he said. "Those kinds of policies just rub me the wrong way"