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3/06/2021
Telstra Needs More ICT Experts from the Skilled Migration Occupation List
Telstra is Australia’s largest telecommunications company by market share. According to the company, the key roles for the telco are now covered by the latest Skilled Migration Occupation Lists. However, the company wants the federal government to expand the Priority Skilled Migration Occupation List to include several additional jobs. In this
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3/06/2021
NBN Co Aims to Conduct Voice Tests in the Low-band
NBN Co is carrying out preparations to use a test low-band fixed wireless product as an alternative voice service for regional areas currently served by copper landlines as well as ageing high capacity radio concentrator infrastructure. Alongside this, NBN Co is also set to use its Sky Muster satellite and fixed wireless services as part of federal
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30/05/2021
NBN Co’s Private Debt Grows to $12 Billion After Acquiring US Bond Markets
NBN Co was able to achieve a successful inaugural raise in US capital markets. From there, the company was able to raise US$2 billion, which is approximately AU$2.6 billion. The overall issue was composed of a five-year bond priced at US$750 million, along with a ten-year bond priced at US$1.25 billion. The former is set to mature in May 2026
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30/05/2021
NBN Co Abandons Plans to Procure Dark Fibre
NBN Co once planned to procure dark fibre from private operators rather than overbuilding them. However, the company abandoned this plan recently. The procurement plan happened after the company was offered fibre that has been priced multiple times higher compared to its own build costs in early 2020. This was the company’s response to the
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11/05/2021
Telstra Fends Off as Tutela Survey Names Vodafone as the Best Network
In a Tutela survey based on a claimed 15 billion measurements and 1.6m speed tests conducted in the first three months of 2021, Vodafone has ranked ahead of Telstra when it comes to consistent quality, latency time, and upload speeds. Telstra trumped on download speeds. Telstra Criticises Tutela Survey Telstra then slammed the survey methodology
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4/05/2021
Vodafone Beats Telstra on Core Consistent Quality and Upload Speeds
Canadian measurement specialist Tutela conducted a three-month survey of Australian mobile operators.  Based on this survey, Vodafone and Telstra were statistically tied for first place when it comes to consistent quality thresholds, both rated as excellent by the responders. However, Vodafone had the highest core consistent quality according to
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4/05/2021
Optus Bundles Assets to Own 2,000 ATN Sites Across Australia
Optus has already begun to bundle its tower assets into a special purpose company. This happened as Bank of America started with the process of finding a buyer who wants to acquire a likely majority stake. Australia Tower Network To own what is estimated to be some 2000 sites all over Australia, Optus created an ASIC-registered company. This is
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30/04/2021
Regional Connectivity Program Reveals More Fund Recipients
More and more information is being divulged about the recipients of the Regional Connectivity Program funds. Around $90M of the funds is said to be allocated to various eligible winners as announced by the Federal Government in the previous week.   Individual regional government representatives are now releasing more information regarding the
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28/04/2021
Melbourne Emerges as Australia’s Fastest City for 5G
Among Australian cities, Melbourne is considered to have the fastest 5G speeds.  In fact, the city ranks sixth on the list compiled by OpenSignal’s 5G Global Top 10 Cities falling just behind Tokyo, Japan. In the same list, Jeonju, South Korea made it to the top spot while Hsinchu City, Taiwan, and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia ranked second and third
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24/04/2021
SpinTel Launches Congestion Free NBN Services
Subscribers of SpinTel would soon be experiencing better peak hour speeds as the internet service provider has confirmed that it would be providing its customers with congestion free NBN plans, which are expected to have speed tiers that could be as fast as its NBN 100 plan. SpinTel is Now Offering Congestion Free NBN Plans According to reports,
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8/04/2021
NBN clears installation backlog with stockpiled HFC NTDs
Early in February, NBN Co stopped taking new orders for their Hybrid Fibre Coaxial (HFC) services due to challenges in sourcing the core components used in the network termination devices (NTDs). While sales-pause officially remains in place, the network has started to use some of its HFC NTD inventory to fulfil several thousands of delayed
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5/04/2021
NBN Looks Into Permanent Solutions to Lightning Damage
NBN, the company responsible for the nbn™, is looking into long-term solutions to reduce failures of the network in the event of lightning strikes.  Since its Australia-wide rollout, lightning has represented a major challenge in connectivity and power surges. Light-prone areas such as the Blue Mountains are prone to losing their connection, and
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