[oohmeplums]

The upgrade to 1Gbps was always in the roadmap: http://www.nbnco.com.au/assets/documents/initial-roadmap.pdf

Frankly, I think they should've launched with 1Gbps to begin with -- customers don't have to pay for the higher speed tiers if they don't want to.

[jacques_chester]

Ah, I hadn't realised that. So it's a stock standard re-announcement.