These days, it is rare that we get good news about our phone and internet connections. It's even rarer when this good news doesn't cost us anything more.

Yet as of mid-September, NBN has ramped up speed tiers for homes and businesses on fixed-line connections. It will mean many plans - though not all - will double or triple in speed. Some popular plans have received a fivefold boost.

And this will happen at no extra cost to consumers. But as with every silver lining there is a dark cloud.

These increased speeds will only deepen the gulf between the digital haves and have-nots in Australia. The change means that faster plans will be getting faster - but lower speed plans won't be affected.

So if you pay more, you will get even more now. If you are going for a value plan (25 or 50mbps) o

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