(Telecompaper) Australians are increasingly switching to faster internet retail plans, with 70 percent of new orders on the NBN access network being now based on wholesale speeds tiers of 50 Mbps for download or higher, according to a report from NBN Co, the company building Australia's broadband network. The report further shows that, since December 2017, orders for wholesale speed tiers of 50 Mbps or higher have almost tripled, increasing from 16 percent to 44 percent, with average bandwidth network congestion reduced from more than five hours to less than 30 minutes per service, per week compared to this time last year (excluding Sky Muster satellite).