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22/05/2024
Telstra is jacking up its Internet pricing on July 1 - Here’s how to avoid the price rise
Telstra customers have started to receive emails from the telco about increasing home internet pricing. From July 1, Telstra customers on the two cheapest speed tiers are going to be facing up to an extra $60 a year to stay connected through Telstra.   It’s not entirely bad news. Telstra customers on the more expensive speed tiers are going to
NBN
18/04/2024
Breakthrough: Live NBN Network demonstrates 100 Gigabit technology for the first time
Nokia revealed today that NBN Co, Australia’s leading broadband provider, has achieved a groundbreaking milestone: It conducted the world’s first live network demonstration of multiple next-generation PON technologies.  Nokia, known for its phones, has shifted focus to business networking in recent years. It provided the prototype technology for
NBN
28/03/2024
ACCC: New NBN pricing boosts Internet performance during busy hours
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) reports that broadband speed performance during peak demand hours has significantly improved for users of NBN 'Home Ultrafast' 1000 Mbps services.  This improvement follows the removal of capacity-based charging under NBN Co's new wholesale pricing structure. A bit of background Broadband
NBN
5/03/2024
NBN Co plans to turbo-charge high speed tiers
Australians could soon experience faster Internet speeds with NBN Co's proposal to boost download speeds on its NBN Home Fast product from 100/20 Mbps to 500/50 Mbps at no extra cost. There are also plans to triple the download speed of its NBN Home Superfast product from 250/25 Mbps to 750/50 Mbps and increase the speed of its NBN Home Ultrafast
NBN
13/02/2024
Telstra completes South Brisbane Fibre
The South Brisbane experiment is about to draw to a close, and it provides some lessons about what might have happened with a Telstra led NBN, and about what might happen in the future in similar ‘Brownfield’ sites. What is the significance of South Brisbane?The South Brisbane distribution area (DA) is a large telephone loop, servicing about
NBN
13/02/2024
Satellite Service Outage Experienced by NBN Co Over Christmas
An incident last December 21, 2021, resulted in a satellite outage. NBN Co said it was still working with partners and vendors to reconnect some Sky Muster users. Even if most Sky Muster and Sky Muster Plus satellite services were restored soon after, there are still approximately 0.5 percent of NBN satellite customers who continue to be affected.
NBN
13/02/2024
NBN upgrades: These are the latest suburbs eligible for faster internet
For most people, having a stable and reliable internet connection at home that delivers the speed and data they require is already a necessity. This is one of the reasons why NBN Co is striving to ensure that every home reaps the benefits of a fast internet network. Just recently, the company revealed some of the latest suburbs that are eligible
NBN
13/02/2024
NBN Co: Meeting Investment Needs of Network - A Basis of Future Success
NBN Co has rallied for its need to earn enough profit to cover its investment requirements. This was because approximately $2.5 billion was already spent on capital expenditures last financial year. This was from its $3.1 billion earnings after opex. This push was made days before the re-activation of a revised Special Access Undertaking process
NBN
30/01/2024
66% of Australians haven't upgraded their Internet plan for at least 3 years
As we move further into the New Year, it's a good idea to check if your current Internet plan still suits your needs.  According to the NBN Co, the amount of data we’ve been using in the past seven years has increased triple-fold, but two in three Australians haven’t changed their Internet plan speeds in the last three years - are you one of
NBN
25/08/2023
ACCC: Red Lines on NBN Regulation Drawn; Warning on ICRA Released
According to the commissioner of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, Anna Brakey, the commission doesn’t deem that the Special Access Undertaking of NBN Co was operating the way it was intended to.   Brakey further revealed in the Melbourne Congress that the SAU failed to deliver a high degree of certainty about the product set
NBN
24/08/2022
Productivity Commission Inclined on New Tender Mechanism, NBN and Black Spot Funding Pushed Back
The direct government funding allocations for NBN Co, the Mobile Black Spot Program as well as the Regional Connectivity Program is set to a halt as funding for a transparent market-based Universal Service Guarantee is pushed. This is according to a recommendation published by the Productivity Commission. The report from the commission is highly
NBN
19/08/2022
What's the new wholesale offering from the NBN?
The NBN Co has just announced that they will be launching a new wholesale enterprise product that operates "at symmetrical speeds (of up to 1Gbps) with premium customer service experience over the nbn™ broadband access network."According to ther press release, Enterprise Ethernet connections are designed to be built on request, and include a
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