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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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8/12/2021
NBN Held Up Well During the Latest Lockdowns According to ACCC
According to the latest data from the Measuring Broadband Australia report released by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, the COVID lockdowns across certain areas of Australia during the last quarter did not reflect reduced performance on the NBN. The basis of the report was the measurements taken from 1270 NBN fixed-line and
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23/11/2021
Higher Speed Bundle Numbers Decline With NBN Focus on Fast Promo Dwindles
There was a 30 percent decline in higher than 100Mbps subscriptions following the end of Focus on Fast promotion. This was revealed in the latest NBN wholesale market indicators report released by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. NBN subscribers who signed up to greater than 100Mbps services, including the Super Fast and
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23/11/2021
Federal Labor Expands NBN Fibre Upgrade to Cover 1.5M Extra Premises
Federal Labor is keen on expanding the fibre overlay of the FTTN network of NBN Co for $2.4 Billion. The NBN policy is also yet to be announced in Sydney by opposition leader Anthony Albanese and shadow communications minister Michelle Rowland. With this promise, the job started by NBN Co last year would be effectively finished. Last year, NBN Co
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10/11/2021
NBN Co Earnings Soar, Adds More Locations to Its Fibre Upgrade List
NBN Co released its quarterly financial data, which revealed a surge in its earnings. In line with this, it also released a list of additional homes and businesses in FTTN areas to be passed by its GPON overlay. The number of addresses reached approximately 200,000. Between this year and 2023, it is expected that three million premises will get to
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1/11/2021
Labor Probes into Whether NBN Co Misled Minister Fletcher Regarding G.Fast Plans
Federal Labor quizzed NBN Co over whether the company misled the communications minister Paul Fletcher regarding the upgrade path of its 1.5m premises fibre-to-the-curb network. In the recent Senate Estimates hearing, Labor Senator Louis Pratt questioned NBN Co CEO Stephen Rue on why the company ceased their original plans to use a simple G.fast
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26/10/2021
NBN Co Business-grade Services Aimed to Drive SMB Digital Acceleration
NBN Co CEO Stephen Rue emphasised how the country’s small to medium businesses fostered the acceleration of the digitisation of the economy at the Australian Chamber of Commerce webinar on NBN’s central role in lifting digital capability. But there’s more to be done. “Businesses with fewer than 20 employees employ 46 percent of the Australian
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20/10/2021
Hybrid Power Cubes Being Deployed by NBN Co Ahead of Natural Disaster Season
NBN Co is deploying new NBN Hybrid Power Cubes in preparation for this year’s natural disaster season. Along with this, the company is also rolling out $6M worth of new temporary infrastructure assets. The Hybrid Power Cubes being deployed combine solar, battery, and diesel generator technologies. These are designed to provide sustained backup
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30/09/2021
NBN Co: Price and Product Innovation will be Hampered by ACCC Discrimination Guidelines
NBN Co revealed objections to the proposed updated non-discrimination guidelines for superfast fixed-line networks.   The new and updated guidelines are set to replace those that have been issued in 2021. The updates encompass two tests to assess potential discrimination between access seekers. The first one intends to determine explicit
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