An international survey has revealed Australia ranks last when it comes to broadband satisfaction.
The survey of more than 21,000 adults across 28 countries, carried out by Ipsos Global Advisor, asked residents how they rated their high-speed broadband, with 61 per cent of Australians rating the quality as "fairly poor" or "very poor".
Only 32 per cent of Australians rated broadband quality as fairly good or very good with 7 per cent indifferent.
More than 60 per cent of people asked in New Zealand, the United States and India rated their satisfaction as fairly good or very good.
Australians satisfaction on broadband according to Ipsos. Source: Ipsos MORI
Serbia, South Korea and Colombia were the happiest nations - topping the survey with a 72 per cent or more satisfaction rating.
People also voted that high speed broadband should be made a priority for investment in Australia.
Energy-generating infrastructure and road networks rounded off the top three priorities for Australians in 2017.
The result follows criticism of the National Broadband Network in Australia.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull slammed the NBN on Monday as a "corporate train wreck" following the Ombudsman receiving a large number of complaints.
“Tens of billions of dollars wasted by the Labor Party, leaving us with the biggest corporate train wreck ever undertaken by a federal government,” he said during Question Time.
CEO of NBN Co Bill Morrow said this week that despite some setbacks, most Australians were happy with their NBN performance.
“For the average residential family, the idea of getting 25 or 50 megabits per second is enough,” he told the ABC.
“We have options through the Technology Choice Program that if you really need [faster speeds], you can put up a little bit of money yourself to where it doesn't actually pull on the rest of us for the price that we're ultimately going to have to pay for those services.”
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