Photos: Australian broadband coverage

By on 29 June 2007

With a fierce battle raging over Australia's broadband future and how bush users should be connected, regulators have weighed in to produce a state of nation report into the country's communications infrastructure and how well consumers are being served by their providers.

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The report has found that ADSL now covers 91 percent of the population, although competition is most common in metropolitan areas.

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