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13/02/2024
NBN Co Offers CVC Incentives for Higher-speed Plans
To keep RSPs focused on marketing 250Mbps+ services, NBN Co is offering a range of CVC incentives. This happened after chief customer officer Brad Whitcomb revealed the stunning success of its current Focus on Fast promotion. Apart from a range of CVC incentives, NBN Co also proposed to effectively cap overall cost increases to RSPs at 7% in
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13/02/2024
NBN Co Goes on Track to Enjoy Positive Full-year Earnings for the First Time
NBN Co CEO Stephen Rue said that the company is in great shape--it will have its first positive full-year earnings before interest, tax, depreciation, and amortisation (EBITDA) after a 25% revenue increase.  The company responsible for the National Broadband Network (NBN) is generating higher revenue since March 2020, thanks to the growing demand
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13/02/2024
NBN Co Exceeds Annual Spending Budget
NBN Co Limited, popularly known as NBN, significantly went over its annual spending budget even before the government backflipped the elevated cost of the national infrastructure budget. The higher projected spending on NBN Co's financial year was initially slated to cost around $51 billion. However, the Morrison government in September 2020 added
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13/02/2024
NBN achieves a world record for long-range 5G transmission
Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN) claims that they achieved a new world record for long-range 5G transmission.   NBN, along with its tech company associates Ericsson, Qualcomm, and Casa Systems, attained a stable 5G mmWave transmission at a length of 7.3 kilometres. This new record doubles the distance they recorded just three months
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13/02/2024
More Than Half of Global Gaming Revenues Accounted for by Mobile Gaming
More than twice as many revenues globally (US$1.57 billion) were generated by the cloud gaming market in 2021 as they did in 2020. According to researchers Newzoo, even more growth is anticipated, a growth that could potentially reach US$6.53 billion in 2024. Notably, cloud gaming is becoming one of the biggest use cases for 5G. According to
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13/02/2024
Massive $2 Billion Spent by Telstra and Optus on 900MHz Spectrum
The Australian Communications and Media Authority recently conducted an auction wherein Telstra and Optus spent a massive $2,092 Billion on the 850/900 MHz band spectrum. For $1.476 Billion, Optus has acquired 2x25 MHz of the 900 MHz spectrum. The telco said that this will "deliver a significant uplift of 5G coverage nationwide, in addition to its
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13/02/2024
In Response to RSPs’ Letter, NBN Co Resets CVC Rebates
NBN Co yielded to the demands made by the CEOs of its five leading retailers. The company decided on a favourable reset of its CVC overage rebate scheme. In parallel to this, NBN Co also rebutted the claims by the RSPs that it is profiting from COVID.   “From 1 October 2021 until 31 December 2021, NBN Co will calculate COVID credit relief for
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13/02/2024
Hyperone Announces Integration of Sensory Technology – a World-first!
HyperOne is proud to announce its integration of sensory technology. The national fibre network will be using vibration detection and ranging technology in protecting its infrastructure developed by FibreSense. HyperOne announced during a summit, that it: “will be the only national backbone in Australia that will have this FibreSense capability.”
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13/02/2024
Expanding the reach of 5G with 3GPP Release 16
As global leaders in information technology continue to find ways to improve wireless connectivity for everyone, access to 5G internet becomes more and more evident. Several countries are looking forward to the completion of their respective 5G infrastructures and the recent 5G NR Release 16 from the 3GPP is a much welcome development. The latest
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13/02/2024
Ericsson Private 5G for Enterprise Deployed by Telstra
Telstra and Ericsson already announced their first deployment of Ericsson Private 5G after six months of partnering to deliver private 5G. They also worked together with Microsoft to work on Ericsson Private 5G, an on-premises dedicated 5G network for the enterprise. It leverages a single-server 5G dual-mode core. Telstra Enterprise customer
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13/02/2024
Ericsson: Immersive Media Key to Achieving 5G Premium
According to Ericsson, mobile operators that take a proactive approach to monetising 5G have a great opportunity to achieve a 2.7% CAGR through 2030.   Ericsson MD for ANZ Emilio Romeo revealed a preview of research suggesting that bundling 5G with rich media services can provide the best avenue for achieving the full potential from the extensive
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13/02/2024
Comms Alliance Launches a Public Consultation on New 5G Equipment Standards
A public consultation into the proposed new requirements for 5G customer equipment in the industry for use in Australia was launched by Communications Alliance. Comms Alliance is planning an update of its Requirements for Connection to an Air Interface of a Telecommunications Network Standard. The new requirements are part of this scheduled
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