The high upload speeds being promised as the National Broadband Network's (NBN) fixed wireless offering is rolled out to regional areas will be able to support more symmetric applications such as video conferencing and cloud services as well as improving the consistency of application performance, a new research report has found.

The "Fixed Wireless Broadband: A Global Comparison" report, commissioned by Ericsson and conducted by Ovum Research and published last week, has found that not only does the NBN fixed wireless network compare very positively with global offerings but that users of the network are able to access substantially higher data allowances and speeds than elsewhere.