Article
Vital Signs: NBN’s new price plans are too little, too late
Publisher
Broadband
National Broadband Network
Infrastructure
Government expenditure
Government accountability
Australia
Description
This week NBN Co announced pricing changes for the National Broadband Network.
It includes a new plan boasting a download speed of 1 gigabit per second and an upload speed of 50 megabits per second for $80 a month.
These are 20-fold improvements on the maximum NBN speeds now. Almost a decade since the first customers were connected, NBN Co is thinking about a genuinely 21st century offering in terms of speed and price.
The NBN is late, over budget and slow. Australia places 58th globally for fixed-line broadband speed. Not only do the NBN’s advertised speeds lag international standards but the actual speeds often don’t come close to what is promised.
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Copyright:
The Conversation Media Group 2019
License type:
CC BY-ND
Access Rights Type:
open
Post date:
20 Sep 2019
