Mazerski formed his current views based on his experiences working in the US telecoms sector.

"In the US, companies went down the [forced fibre] path and realised consumers didn't want it so they did more fibre-to-the-node (FTTN)," he said. "They would build a node to the community, run a fibre there and if people wanted it they can have it but for those that didn't, the copper was left in place."

NBN is currently settled on a fibre-to-the-premise (FTTP) model which has been heavily criticised by the Coalition due to its high cost.

There are some similarities between what Mazerski is proposing and the Coalition's but he does not explicitly support the Opposition.

Instead, Mazerski wants different areas to be looked at separately to determine if there is a need for fibre in each community. While the economics behind the NBN need to be thought through, customer requirements should not be neglected.