Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced that wholesale prices would be equal when the $43 billion national broadband network was rolled out.

Ninety-three per cent of Australians will pay the same price to access the internet once the existing labyrinth of copper wires is replaced with high-speed optical fibre cables.

The announcement on equal wholesale pricing finalises a key operational decision on the broadband roll-out, which federal Communications Minister Stephen Conroy had considered before the election.

Independent MP Tony Windsor, who hails from Tamworth in NSW, described the broadband equity wholesale pricing decision as a breakthrough, which influenced him in his decision to side with Labor in forming a minority government.

But Nationals leader Warren Truss said parity pricing was useless when two million Australians did not have access to broadband.