Drawing on a survey of Australian CEOs, this report highlights the critical importance of lifting the performance of Australia?s broadband network. Among the findings:

• Over 93% of companies indicated that the internet has had a positive impact on their efficiency/productivity
• 66% of businesses believe their business will benefit greatly from faster broadband.
•  69.7% of regional firms would see a great benefit from faster broadband.
• Faster broadband is expected to lead to large increases in financial activity for 36% of businesses, with a further 45.1% of companies expecting small increases.
• 29.6% of small firms indicated they have a low degree of skills which would prevent them seizing opportunities arising from the deployment of high speed broadband.
• 73.5% indicated that they were likely to upgrade to high speed broadband, if available.
• Reliability of service was the dominant factor influencing the extent of uptake.