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11/03/2021
NBN Co Starts Repaying Its $19.5 Billion Government Loan
The company National Broadband Network or NBN is starting to repay its $19.5 billion government loan. They recently paid $3 billion using privately-sourced debt funding.  There's a lot of things going on in the NBN Co lately. A couple of weeks ago, they talked about the increase in their revenue for the last six months. Now, they are discussing
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11/03/2021
NBN Co Plans to Test NBN’s Performance Versus 5G Fixed Wireless Services
NBN Co wants to test if their services can compete with the 5G connection.  Recent reports said that NBN Co is planning a public and independent test to see how well its services match up to the 5G fixed wireless connection. This analysis might answer the question of whether 5G can be a real substitute or alternative for NBN
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11/03/2021
NBN Providers React Against ACMA’s Rules on Rebates
NBN Co, along with retail service providers, such as Telstra, Optus, TPG Telecom, and Vocus, sends a joint letter to the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA). According to the letter, they want flexibility regarding rebates for service mishaps.  Particularly, they want to discuss rules about the extent to which the full monetary
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11/03/2021
TPG Proclaims Itself as the Top Seller of NBN Broadband Services
A recent statement by TPG Telecom says that they are currently the highest seller of NBN enterprise Ethernet services.  Elizabeth Aris, the group executive for enterprise and government, says that the strong market performance of TPG is a result of its unique approach to customers. Also, they are prioritising customers while making use of the
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11/03/2021
NBN Co Discloses the Second Tranche of Suburbs and Towns for Fibre Upgrade
Are you planning to get an NBN fibre-to-the-node internet plan but not available in your area? You might be in luck because NBN Co is preparing to install fibre in new cities and towns.  The new places that will have fibre upgrade are announced through an official NBN Co statement: "NBN Co started work in October 2020 to extend fibre deeper into
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11/03/2021
Bandwidth Plunges in Some Areas After NBN Co Ends Its Capacity Freebies
Bandwidth purchased from NBN drops as pandemic capacity boost ends according to numbers from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC).  All retail service providers need to start buying up more National Broadband Network (NBN) Connectivity Virtual Circuit (CVC) capacity after the end of NBN Co's COVID-19 capacity freebies. NBN is
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24/02/2021
Telstra Marks a Milestone as Its 5G Coverage Reaches Over 50% of Australians
5G offers various benefits to internet users such as greater transmission speeds, as well as lower latency in the connection. There is also the possibility of a greater number of device connections, allowing more users to exchange information with each other in real-time. The good news is that 5G is now made available to half of the entire
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24/02/2021
NBN Co Stops Taking HFC Orders Due to Sourcing Issues
NBN Co is set to cease taking new HFC orders as stated in an article published on their website last February 1. This has already been communicated with their Retail Service Providers (RSPs) leveraging the use of HFC technology. Limiting the number of HFC connections took effect a day after they published the announcement on their site. Reason for
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15/09/2020
Australia Lands World's First 5G Trial
Aussie, Aussie, Aussie! Australia has landed the world's first 5G public trial. The country's largest telco Telstra announced the switch that kicked off alongside the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Cited as the next generation of Wi-Fi, 5G networks are built from cutting-edge technology that promises to deliver faster speeds and better connectivity to
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13/11/2019
Average Australian Internet Speed - December 2016
Akamai has released their latest State of the Internet Report, which shows the average Australian internet speed sitting currently ranked 50th in the world for its average national internet connection speed at 9.6 Mbps, with a year on year growth of 23%. Whilst Australia has seen some improvement from the rollout of the NBN, this speed growth
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12/11/2019
Optus 4G trials record 70Mbps speeds
Australian IT site Delimiter has reported that Optus have successfully carried out trials for 4G mobile and data services on the 700MHz band, previously used for analogue TV transmission. Speeds recorded during the trials exceeded 70Mbps- 3x times faster than even the fastest ADSL connection, and approaching the maximum speed of most fibre-optic
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20/02/2018
Wi-Fi in the sky: aircraft bringing internet to rural and remote areas
Facebook and Google are both working on airborne methods of broadband transmission. Both companies aim to supply a broadband connection to areas not served by infrastructure like fibres or mobile towers, by creating skyborne webs of aircraft that will send data between themselves and down to the ground. In Facebook's case, those aircraft are
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