Tech Guide Editor Stephen Fenech says "not everyone will be able to access gigabit speed" as the government nears completion of its contentious $51 billion NBN scheme. "Australia ranks well down the list compared to other countries who have way more gigabit speed access than we do," he said.
"It's up to the NBN now the initial rollout has been completed to come up with a plan to improve parts of the network, to offer higher speed to customers that need them. "Less than 28 per cent of people can access those speeds." Meanwhile, Amazon has launched a Fulfilment Centre in Western Sydney, expected to create 2,000 jobs for the region. "This Fulfilment Centre will include some of their cutting edge robotics technology," Mr Fenech said.
The coalition's fraudband has ended up costing more than the FTTP Labor would have rolled out. It seems the coalition loves 19th century technology.
More like No Bloody Network to me.
68th in the world for internet. What a disgrace. A great project ruined by neolib ideology, again. Quiet Australians are buffoons.
we knew this years ago when the liberal government got their hands on it
Shorten how did you make your millions .. Desalination or NBN ?
They just put in a cable from Hawaii last month and,speed is ten times fast ..work that out..Labor spend spend on shit ...Desalination plants 8 Billion to build and have to be replaced every seven years ...GM two Billion to keep Holden going yes two Billion to GM what a joke
Labor 51 Billion ..Rudd Has No idea of economics none at all but he knows how to get his wife real good government contracts
Or even a connection at all.
No shit they completely bungled it. Another notch on the LNP belt
Many have no way to access the legislated 25mbps, let alone have any pathway to 1000mbps.
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