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Vital Signs: NBN's new price plans are too little, too late

  • Written by Richard Holden, Professor of Economics, UNSW
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This week NBN Co announced pricing changes for the National Broadband Network.

It includes a new plan boasting a download speed of 1 gigabit per second and an upload speed of 50 megabits per second for $80 a month.

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