They own the infrastructure, so its going to be great fun to see what happens. One bidder, Acacia, freely acknowledges that they will need to compensate Telstra for each copper line they take.

In Australia, one operator (Telstra) went from 7.2 to 14Mbps. They announced that they would rapidly move to 21Mbps, so most hardware manufacturers didn't bother manufacturing 14Mbps chipsets. I for one hope that 21Mbps doesn't also get skipped in favour of 42Mbps.