Australia s National Broadband Network has become a tale of haves and have-nots, with the company announcing speed upgrades for some while confirming others will have to wait months to connect at all.
NBN Co unveiled details about both groups at its half-yearly financial announcement on Wednesday, revealing another 100,000 households had been identified for upgrades from copper to speedier fibre technology, while others would have to manage without any fixed broadband connection due to hardware shortages. One Sydney man hit by the NBN problem said he d been forced to hold up his smartphone to a window to get any internet access at all.
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January 7, 2021 GMT
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After nine years and a very long and painful rollout process, Australia’s National Broadband Network (NBN) has been declared complete.
Minister for Communications, Paul Fletcher, announced in a media release today that the NBN should be treated as ‘built and fully operational’. This is despite the fact that the government is now working to upgrade the NBN network to full fibre by 2023.