Outsider here: Why does Australian internet have very slow upload speed?
Just a brief background:
I am a resident from the Philippines that currently has a 300 Mbps symmetrical internet connection at home (e.g. same for both download and upload).
Anyways:
My family is thinking of migrating to Sydney Australia in a few years time (possibly near Haymarket or Macquarie or somewhere along the Ryde area).
As I was researching more about Australia, I found out that there is a huge gap between download and upload speeds (as seen in this pic below).
E.g. 800 Mbps Download BUT ONLY 40 Mbps Upload.
My obvious question is:
Why is there such a huge gap between download speed and upload speed in Australia?
For comparison, New Zealand (which afaik is a poorer country compared to AU) has better upload speed than its next-door neighbor.
There was an event a report by the ACCC stating that Australian internet upload speed is one of the slowest among OECD.
Heck, even places like Malaysia and Philippines have better upload speed in general.
If you are a livestreamer + gamer (that broadcasts on YouTube and/or Twitch), anything below 100 Mbps upload speed is just not going to cut it
So I would like to ask:
What is the root-cause then for the very low upload speed of Australian internet?