Households already connected to the national broadband network through copper could get moved onto the full fibre-to-the-premises model if federal Labor wins the election.
Bill Shorten has vowed to scrap the coalition's "second rate" national broadband network and resume Labor's original plan.
It wants to deliver fibre all the way to an extra two million homes and businesses.
And within the first term of a Shorten government, Infrastructure Australia would be commissioned to investigate how those already connected to the fibre-to-the-node network could be moved over to fibre-to-the-premises.
Shorten said the coalition's NBN had blown out from $29.5 billion to $56 billion.
Labor says it will spend the same amount of public money on the NBN - putting a $57 billion cap on expenses - but roll out fibre-to-the-premises to more homes and businesses.
"You can't have an innovation boom while you are still buffering," Mr Shorten said.
Labor says the cost of fibre-to-the node has increased from $600 per house to $1600 under the coalition, whereas the cost of fibre was going down.
"If there were gold medals handed out for stuff-ups and blow-outs, Malcolm Turnbull would be on his way to Rio right now," Labor's communications spokesman Jason Clare told reporters in western Sydney, in the marginal Liberal-held seat of Lindsay.
He said a family in Victoria last week told him they were taking their children to McDonald's every night, not for the food but for the wi-fi.
"It's 21st century Australia; Malcolm Turnbull's rolling out 19th century technology," Mr Clare said.
Bill Shorten has vowed to scrap the coalition's "second rate" national broadband network and resume Labor's original plan.
It wants to deliver fibre all the way to an extra two million homes and businesses.
And within the first term of a Shorten government, Infrastructure Australia would be commissioned to investigate how those already connected to the fibre-to-the-node network could be moved over to fibre-to-the-premises.
Shorten said the coalition's NBN had blown out from $29.5 billion to $56 billion.
Labor says it will spend the same amount of public money on the NBN - putting a $57 billion cap on expenses - but roll out fibre-to-the-premises to more homes and businesses.
"You can't have an innovation boom while you are still buffering," Mr Shorten said.
Labor says the cost of fibre-to-the node has increased from $600 per house to $1600 under the coalition, whereas the cost of fibre was going down.
"If there were gold medals handed out for stuff-ups and blow-outs, Malcolm Turnbull would be on his way to Rio right now," Labor's communications spokesman Jason Clare told reporters in western Sydney, in the marginal Liberal-held seat of Lindsay.
He said a family in Victoria last week told him they were taking their children to McDonald's every night, not for the food but for the wi-fi.
"It's 21st century Australia; Malcolm Turnbull's rolling out 19th century technology," Mr Clare said.
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