Gai Brodtmann (Canberra, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

I have been running a campaign called Send Me Your Speeds for about 12 months now. It is in response to the government's inability to put Canberra on the NBN rollout map. Finally we are on the rollout map, but now I want Canberra prioritised on the rollout map. This is the reason why I will read some of these shocking speeds. Gordon in Gordon: download speed of 1.86 megabits per second, upload 0.76. Jenny in Hughes: download 0.78, upload 0.89. Charlotte in Deakin: download 0.28, upload 0.34. Doug in Pearce: download 7.27, upload 0.59. Al in Kambah: download 2.13, upload 0.24. Poor old Adam in Chisholm: download 0.21, upload 0.03. As Adam said, 'I went to the recommended speed test website, and unfortunately my internet speed is too slow for it to be brought up. It has managed to load about four lines of a picture in the past five to 10 minutes, which, from memory, is slower than my dial-up speeds that I had back in the 1990s.' As one of the residents said, 'All in all, I would be better off being a cow in Wagga than living in Canberra with these speeds.' Keep sending your speeds, Canberra.

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