In the wake of the there has been a and the attraction of 100Mbps speeds on the NBN.

But much of it misses a key element of the network's goals, University of Adelaide Professor Emeritus of Communications, Reg Coutts, told .

"The point is the NBN is not just about higher speeds, it is about ubiquity. Many of the problems with the current broadband rollout is it is patchwork quilt," Coutts said. "Then you have to remember Australia is the fast technology follower market. We are still seeing the early days of the sorts of applications that require higher bandwidth."

The fact the NBN will be a fibre-to-the-premise (FTTP) network that is rolled out to up to 90-93 per cent of the population while also addressing backhaul issues, is more salient than the question of the attraction of speeds for Coutts.

With Telstra's copper network approaching the end of its life and few, if any telcos willing to fill in the blackspot patches in the country's network quilt, Coutts maintained it is up to the Government to forge ahead with the plan as "the train has left the station".