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13/04/2022
EnergyAustralia Launches NBN Plans & Bundle Product
Energy Australia has recently announced the launch of its new NBN plans and bundle product. The move comes as the company looks to offer more choice and value to customers in the lead-up to the National Broadband Network (NBN) rollout. To know whether the company's offering will suit you, it is a good idea to explore an Energy Australia NBN review
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6/04/2022
More Regional Locations for FTTP Upgrades Identified by NBN Co
Recently, NBN Co has disclosed more of its plans to upgrade FTTN to FTTP. In line with this, the company identified a list of areas where approximately 90,000 premises will be eligible to order a Fibre Connect upgrade. The list of suburbs and towns includes 38 new locations in NSW, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, and Western Australia. Of
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9/03/2022
10Gbps Enterprise Services to be Trialled by NBN Co
NBN Co is preparing to kick off a trial that will test speeds of almost 10Gbps enterprise services soon. This can be attributed to the fact that the network operator is considering adding new turbo-charged Enterprise Ethernet services to its product arsenal. At the moment, the Enterprise Ethernet family of products of NBN Co ranges from 10Mbps to
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3/03/2022
As EBITDA Surges, NBN Pays Down Nearly $6 Billion More Government Debt
NBN Co grew its business to an annualised run rate of $5 billion revenue and $3 billion EBITDA in the last fiscal half. In line with this, it retired nearly half of its outstanding government debt. NBN Co originally has a loan from the government amounting to some $19.5 billion. CEO Stephen Rue said, “I think there’s an understanding in the global
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2/02/2022
NBN Pricing Remains a Big Issue as Telecom Competition Turns 30 Years Old
According to the father of Australian telecom competition Bob Mansfield, the federal government still needs to solve the difficult question of how to best regulate NBN Co even if the industry remains healthy. This is because the resolution will determine the degree of operator profitability in the future. Mansfield said, “The CVC issue is one
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28/01/2022
Quality Assurance Mark to Support Rural Network Extensions Planned by NBN Co
NBN Co is planning on developing a Quality Assurance Mark. This is for network extension devices to support agricultural IoT and in-paddock connectivity. It is also for the sort of assessment criteria that would underpin it. NBN Co said that it believes the quality mark will help workers in the agriculture sector, including farmers, to understand
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28/01/2022
Concerns over TPG Wholesale Separation Raised by NBN Co
According to NBN Co, the functional separation undertaking of TPG Telecom has requested the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to clarify some areas of concern. This is because last November, the telco lodged a functional separation bid with the ACCC. However, NBN Co said that the regulator must consider the differences in competition
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3/01/2022
More Transparency on Competitive Business Services Offered by NBN Co
NBN Co, in its response to the recent round of Special Access Undertaking working group, said it understood “concerns about having core regulated services and competitive services treated in the same manner in the building block model and whether this gives rise to cross-subsidy concerns between core regulated services and competitive
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3/01/2022
NBN Proposed CVC Relief, Certainty in SAU Proposal Paper Included
The most radical revamp of pricing, and NBN Co has recently proposed product construct in an attempt to meet concerns of retailers, regulators, and consumer advocates ahead of the proposed lodgement of a new Special Access Undertaking in February. Specifically, NBN Co proposes the potential development and availability of AVC-only pricing. NBN
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22/12/2021
Streamlining and Reduction of CVC Component in Future Pricing Proposed by NBN Co
An Australian Competition and Consumer Commission-convened working group required NBN Co to do more homework on a new pricing construct. This is set to charge CVC by utilisation and increase AVC-only pricing over time. NBN Co has also presented a detailed analysis providing direction to discussions and opinions of the eventual Special Access
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22/12/2021
NBN Co Commits to Support Global Renewable Energy Initiative
NBN Co recently announced its Towards-Zero Carbon Ambition and membership of the global RE100 renewable energy initiative. The company is reducing its annual energy use by 25GWh by December 2025. To foster this initiative, the company will purchase 100 percent renewable electricity from December 2025. NBN Co plans to purchase its power from
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22/12/2021
Backhaul Telcos Fear Overbuild From NBN’s proposed Datacentre Product
TPG and Vocus are said to be pushing back on plans by NBN Co to create an Ethernet Enterprise product geared towards datacentre backhaul requirements. In parallel to this, most dark fibre companies, including FibreconX have been left out of the loop. An NBN spokesperson explained that “We have received multiple requests from data centre operators
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