Fixed bandwidth speed demands will reach one gigabit per second (Gbps) by 2020, according to NBN Co chief executive officer Mike Quigley.

Speaking to members of the Infrastructure Partnerships Australia group this week, Quigley showed a graph which represented the transition between Internet bandwidth speeds from the early dial-up days to the foreseeable future. In it, Quigley showed that the company behind the Australia-wide fibre-to-the-home National Broadband Network believed demand for bandwidth would accelerate significantly over the next decade.

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