By MARA PATTISON-SOWDEN
THE UPPER Yarra will soon have faster speed internet connections after Woori Yallock and Warburton were named as two of the newest locations added to the National Broadband Network.
The towns were part of 41 locations across Victoria added to an updated three-year plan for the NBN rollout, announced on Sunday 5 May by Communications Minister Stephen Conroy.
Mr Conroy said those upgrades would only come to fruition if Labor survives the election.
“Under Tony Abbott, households across the country will have their planned connection cancelled and be forced to pay up to $5000 or be left disconnected from Labor’s NBN,” he said.
“There are already over 50,000 Australians using the NBN today, with NBN fibre construction commenced or complete for almost one million homes, businesses, schools and hospitals in over 80 communities across the country.”
But the Federal Coalition says its plan to deliver fast broadband will focus on ensuring the NBN is rolled our faster and cheaper, with the highest priority given to the suburbs, towns and regions with the poorest broadband services today.
Healesville, Yarra Glen, Coldstream and Badger Creek were named in the first locations to receive high-speed broadband in 2012.
