Big winners from NBN are foreign The Australian government is about to hand down a pre-election budget deficit - thanks largely to declining corporate tax revenues - while building a $37 billion National Broadband Network that will particularly benefit foreign companies that pay comparatively little tax in Australia. Evidence from cutting-edge high-speed broadband markets such as South Korea and Japan suggests it is not broadband operators who benefit most from fibre-to-the-home networks but internet companies offering over-the-top content and services.