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11/03/2021
Australians Demand Fibre Internet Upgrade but Not Everyone is Happy with the Free Upgrade
Australian telecommunication is currently a complex landscape.  A lot of Australians are getting free or subsidised full-fibre internet upgrades in the following years. However, there are still people who want to get the fibre upgrade immediately, even if it will cost them money. NBN Co is receiving 8,000 upgrade quotes every week. That means
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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
Aussie Broadband's NBN1000 Plan Becomes One of the Cheapest 1Gbps Broadband
More and more people are going for NBN plans in the higher speed tier to enjoy the benefits of ultrafast internet connection that will allow them to stream seamlessly or use the web simultaneously. However, a subscription in a higher speed tier comes with a heftier price tag, but Aussie Broadband’s massive price cut may just be a game-changer.
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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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16/01/2019
World prepares for new data protection rules
Europe's new General Data Protection Regulation (or GDPR for short) has got many curious about how it will effect the "world wide" parts of the web. The throughly revised regulations, that are effective as of May 25th (or today at the time of writing this), are all about protecting your data and your privacy. For the average consumer, it's a good
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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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4/08/2014
Australian broadband speeds improve
Average peak connection speeds in Australia have doubled over the last three years as more households switch to high-speed broadband, according to the latest figures from Akamai.US-based internet platform Akamai handles the internet traffic for some of the world's largest organisations, with one trillion web requests daily, and is therefore
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