Victorian government believes NBN rollout is unfair

The Victorian government in Australia has recently described the rollout of the National Broadband Network as being unfair, stating that Victorians are not being given enough priority.

Whilst the NBN is going full steam ahead with the rollout in Australia, not everyone is happy with the way in which the rollout has progressed. In fact, the Victorian government has described the NBN rollout as being unfair, stating that people in Victoria are not being given enough priority. This comes after the 12 month plan was released by NBN Co. regarding its work on the next stage of the rollout.

Minister for Technology Gordon Rich-Phillips said: “We believe the roll-out should have regard to the size of Victoria’s population. We should be getting our fair share of this initial roll-out.”

He said that it was unfair that although Victoria had a quarter of the country’s population it only had twelve percent of the national share when it came to the NBN. He said that only 61,000 households in Victoria were receiving connection to the NBN out of nearly half a million being rolled out in the first year.

He added that he wanted the Minister for Broadband, Stephen Conroy, to try and make NBN Co, which is in charge of the rollout of the network, to connect more of Victoria to the network. He said: “We’d like to see the Commonwealth address that in this initial roll-out and subsequent roll-outs.”