Broadband: Australia's NBN proposes to build a network a thousand times faster than India's present average BB speeds

The national broadband network will enable speeds of one gigabit per second on its fibre optic network, 100 times faster than originally planned, the company building the network will announce today.

The speed is significantly faster than the maximum speeds promised by the Australian opposition in its broadband policy, and highlights the growing gap between what a fibre-based broadband network can offer compared with existing technology.

It has also emerged that NBN Co told staff to ignore political attacks on the company by the opposition, after its finance spokesman, Andrew Robb, called it a ''stodgy'' bureaucracy, labelled its staff ''talentless'' and promised to close it down if elected to government.

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