Lately there have been complaints from consumers about the slow upload speed issue occurring in Australia as they have halved the official speeds of some carriers. In some cases the upload speed has gone from 40 Mbps to 20 Mbps, that’s a 50% reduction in the speed. Apparently, ISP providers are decreasing the max upload speed for current customers to ensure the increasing costs are not to be passed to customers to avoid pricing increases due to the apparent rising costs to supply NBN services across the industry.

With this new decrease to max upload speed, Australian consumers would experience no changes in their everyday downloading and streaming use. Still, it might have unwarranted effects on some people who rely on the Internet heavily, such as WFH “Work From Home” workers, large families, and content creators.