Building a single fibre connection to a business in Barnaby Joyce’s New England electorate is expected to cost more than $600,000, almost double the original estimate, documents obtained by Guardian Australia reveal.
In February, Guardian Australia reported that the ASX-listed Costa Group’s tomato plant in Guyra received more than $500,000 under the federal government’s regional connectivity program to switch from satellite NBN to a fibre-to-the-premises connection.
