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NBN users gorge on fibre for healthier download speeds

12 August 2025 11:55 | News

NBN CO leaves more Australians’ older internet connections for faster fiber optic technology, with a movement that increases the country -wide download speeds of Australians.

More than 430,000 Australian houses and businesses have increased their connections from older, slower technology over the past year, and the wide band wholesaler announced in their annual results on Tuesday, which increased the company’s income.

2024/25 earnings of the government’s owned business increased to eight percent of 4.2 billion dollars in the direction of guidance and its income increased by four percent to $ 5.7 billion.

Approximately nine million facilities are connected to the NBN network, including 31 percent in fiber. (Mick Tsikas/AAP Photos)

With the increasing demand for the results, higher internet speeds in the network, by making an average of 100 megabit downloads or more per second to plans (32 percent) and $ 3 per month.

The transition to faster download speeds and fiber connections provided higher data use throughout the country.

Average monthly data downloads per priority rose from 460 gigabytes in June 2024 to 508 percent in June 2025 more than 10 percent.

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NBN CO’s 2024/25 earnings increased by eight percent to 4.2 billion dollars. (Mick Tsikas/AAP Photos)

NBN CO General Manager Ellie Sweeney said that fiber upgrade has requested both faster plans and larger downloads.

“Customers who switch from copper to fiber -based connections benefit from faster speeds and use their internet in more dynamic and data intensive ways,” he said.

“Fiber is the first time the dominant connection technology in our network.”

Fiber-to-node upgrades were largely financed by a $ 3 billion commitment from the federal government announced in January.

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Fiber Optik has become a dominant connection technology in the NBN of Australia. (James Ross/AAP Photos)

While NBN CO raised 806,000 facilities in the last financial year, Sweeney said that the company had a plan to raise the remaining 622,000 property linked to copper, but warned years.

“We will continue to work with the industry about how we can accelerate this movement for fiber, AAP said AAP, AAP, AAP.

“Right now, we’re guessing that this will be an early part of 2030.”

The company is currently connected to the national large band network, the company has announced 31 percent using Fiber The Company technology.

Sweeney said more development is planned for some users.

“When we look at the future, the aim of NBN is that our 500MBPS wholesale speed layer became the most popular NBN plan in Australia.”

In 2009, NBN CO was founded as a government business to design, create and operate a wholesale wide band access network for Ulus.


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