NBN fixed wireless download speeds have improved significantly over the past year, the ACCC’s latest Measuring Broadband Australia quarterly report shows. Speeds in December 2021 were 93.4 per cent of plan speed during all hours and 79.8 per cent of plan speed during the busy hours of 7-11pm.
In December 2020, when the MBA program first started measuring NBN fixed wireless, the corresponding results were 78.5 per cent and 68.4 per cent respectively.
The improvement in download speeds is due to a change NBN Co made in July 2021, which allowed a 15 per cent overprovisioning allowance on the download component of NBN fixed wireless plans. Some retail providers have passed-on this change to their customers.
Upload speeds on the other hand remained quite low, declining slightly from 52.2 percent of plan speed in busy hours in December 2020 to 48.9 percent of plan speed in December 2021.
Chart 1. NBN Fixed Wireless Plus download speeds in December 2020 and December 2021
