Better coffee — and now better NBN? Melburnians may have added another bragging right over Sydneysiders
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If Melbourne’s median fixed-line speeds are materially ahead of Sydney’s, local infra choices—not just national policy—are now a competitive factor for bandwidth-heavy AI work. For distributed teams in Australia, city-level network performance should start informing office placement and edge deployment plans.
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