Government funded research believes every Australian household will appreciate a cash saving after the introduction of fast internet across the country.
Deciding on whether or not Australia should build a more expensive broadband network requires us to look beyond our internet usage today and to imagine what it might be like in the future.
Half of Australia still support Labor's Nation Broadband Network, but this figure is lower than a year ago.
The NBN is set to achieve world-leading download speeds of 1Gbps by the end of 2013, equalling Google Fiber’s achievements in Kansas, US. 1Gbps is around the upper limit of the current fibre to the premises/home (FTTP/FTTH) architecture of the NBN. While the speeds are frankly astonishing, most users really won’t see the benefit for years to come. The current max speeds of 100Mbps that the NBN is offering is more than enough for even the most bandwidth hungry personal user with today’s online services available in Australia.