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15/06/2021
NBN Co Says Yes To New Price Cuts and Timeline Changes
Stephen Rue, NBN Co Chief Executive, says that their company stays positive to major changes to its wholesale pricing model but only to a limited extent. He states that the company’s new wholesale consultation paper includes a proposal that should be able to deal with issues presented by RSPs (retail service providers). Bundling of more CVC and
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15/06/2021
Rowland Urges ACCC to Examine NBN Co’s Latest Pricing Proposals
In her attendance to a summit, Shadow Communications Minister Michelle Rowland tells the audience that there is an urgent need to examine NBN Co’s latest pricing proposals more carefully. To quote her own words, “Not only did the NBN pricing announcement last week make pricing more complex, but it appears to financially disadvantage retail
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10/06/2021
NBN Co Releases Expanded List of Locations for FTTN-to-FTTP Upgrade Program
In October 2020, NBN Co began working on their program to extend fibre deeper into communities currently served by Fibre to the Node or FTTN technology to enable conversion to Fibre to the Premises, or FTTP technology. At that time, the company also announced their goal to convert at least 2 million premises by the end of 2023.  This upgrade
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10/06/2021
Telstra Signs $200M Co-investment Fund to Support Regional Connectivity
Telstra is Australia’s largest telecommunications company by market share. Thus, announcing a $200 million co-investment fund to generate additional investment in improving regional mobile coverage, running over the next four years, will come as no surprise to its subscribers as well as to other operators. According to Telstra CEO Andrew Penn, the
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10/06/2021
Optus Plans on Stopping Dual Band 3G Network Service
To provide a better 4G network experience and support the growth of 5G, Optus announced that it is reallocating its 2100MHz spectrum assets away from 3G. In this case, after April 2022, the telco will no longer offer a dual-band 3G network. Nevertheless, it will still offer 3G services via its 900MHz spectrum band. Because of the proposal of the
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3/06/2021
Optus and Telstra Brings Australia’s 5G Speed Doubly Faster Than the Rest of the World
During the first quarter of this year, Australia was listed as one of the countries with the faster mobile speeds in the world. The country has a median 5G download speed of 283.56Mbps, which is nearly double the global average of 142.05Mbps. The measurements are performed by Ookla’s Speedtest. Worldwide Rankings Australia ranked third after
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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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