Back in April, the head of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), Rod Sims, lamented that Australians were paying more for lacklustre broadband internet under the $50 billion National Broadband Network (NBN):
“We are now observing prices of low-speed NBN plans offered to new customers that are at least $10 per month higher than what consumers paid for equivalent plans on the ADSL network.”
NBN wholesale prices for the 12-megabit plan will increase from $12.75 to $17.50 a megabit per second, but many consumers are already paying more for basic NBN plans than existing ADSL services.
