FED:Aussie broadband too dear and slow: report

AAP General News (Australia)
02-10-2011
FED:Aussie broadband too dear and slow: report

Federal Labor has another NBN headache .. with a London-based report claiming the government's
planned broadband will be ten times slower than South Korea's .. but 24 times more expensive.

The opposition's broadband spokesman MALCOLM TURNBULL has immediately jumped on the
Economist Intelligence Unit report .. saying no other country is spending as much on the
broadband as Australia.

But Labor's cried foul .. with Communications Minister STEPHEN CONROY complaining it's
wrong to compare sparsely-populated Australia with South Korea .. and the government saying
its guaranteed 100 megabits speed for the network is supposed to get faster later.

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