Gordon Rich-Phillips, the technology Minister has said that the roll out of the country's NBN is slow and is not able to cater to the high demand for high speed internet in the state of Victoria in Australia.

Rich-Phillips said, "The rollout of the NBN is failing to keep pace with demand for high-speed broadband services in Victoria." He was speaking at the releasing a Deloitte broadband report commissioned by the state government of Victoria.

The Deloitte report said that a total of 350,000 Victorian households and businesses seek faster internet connection that available at present. Rich-Phillips said that the failure to meet demand is due to fall in private investment, which was a result of the decision by the government to build its own network.

He added that the delay in the rollout of the network resulted in much lower coverage of third wave broadband and has increased unmet demand for faster internet services. He said that regions like Ararat, Benalla, Echuca, Hamilton, Mildura, Portland, Sale, Swan Hill, Wangaratta and Warrnambool have high demand for faster internet but are likely to miss early access and some places have to wait as long as nine years.

The remarks comes just came days after NBN Co said that it is incurring higher than expected costs for the nationwide network.