Two of Australia's biggest telcos have raised concerns about NBN Co wasting money duplicating fibre networks already serving businesses across the country.
NBN Co has posted revenue growth despite offering telco providers extra bandwidth free of charge for the last six months.
Ten years after it connected its first customer,the National Broadband Network is effectively complete,with 99 per cent of premises now ready to connect.
Netflix and YouTube are no longer reducing the video quality of their programming,renewing concerns about congested telco networks.
The government has quietly commissioned a consulting firm to reassess how the network is valued,prompting speculation about privatisation.
Internet service providers are worried that broadband services will suffer if the extra bandwidth is removed from the table in August.
Last month the NBN Co celebrated one of its biggest milestones yet but the $51 billion network is still far from fulfilling its full potential.
Staff were informed on Wednesday the headcount at the government-owned company would drop from 6300 to 5500 by the end of the year.
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Grant Malcolm made a fateful mistake after changing his NBN plan in July 2018,which led to a two-year fight to get his service back to normal.
NBN Co is turning its attention to how it will it spend more than $4 billion available for investments and upgrades to the network,which is 99 per cent rolled out.