Budde Sees ‘Fabulous Plot’ As 5G Auction Raises $853 Million
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December 11, 2018
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The ACMA’s auction of 5G spectrum – in the 3.6GHz band – has raised $853 million from the three mobile carriers and... Read More
Dodgy Bank Deals & Secret Company Hear Of US Claim Against Huawei Boss
Huawei’s Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou was charged on Friday with conspiracy to defraud banks using a Company called Skycom which is... Read More
Thredbo, Telstra Cuts Off Optus
After cutting of people and businesses off in Thredbo for days during the peak ski season, Telstra has now cut off Optus... Read More
Key Telstra 5G Partners Have Chinese Communist Party Links, As Huawei Tipped To Get Green Light
Chinese Company Huawei is tipped to get the green light to be a major supplier of 5G mobile technology as serious questions... Read More
Telstra Facing New Dilema After ZTE Shortlisted For 5G Network Build
Telstra is facing a new dilemma after it was revealed that ZTE the Chinese Company whose smartphones they stopped selling after the... Read More
Tassie Demands $100m From Basslink For Cable Outage
The Tasmanian Liberal Government is demanding that Basslink – the company that operates the 370km undersea electricity and data cable that links... Read More
ACMA Sets Sights On NBN Blame Game
As carriers squabble with the NBN, the federal government has ordered the Australian Communications and Media Authority to put an end to... Read More
ACCC Finalises Superfast Broadband Regulation
The ACCC has finalised its proposed regulation of ‘superfast’ broadband services supplied on non-NBN fixed line networks, including approval for network operators... Read More
Hawaiki About To Roll Out 14,000km Undersea Cable
Manufacturing of the proposed 14,000km Hawaiki submarine cable – which will link Australia and New Zealand to Hawaii, American Samoa and west... Read More
Telstra Lose Market Share In Latest NBN Quarterly Numbers
The ACCC has rolled out its latest NBN Wholesale Market Indicators Report, with the new numbers including for the first time the number... Read More
Fibre To Node Rollout Sees NBN On Tap At 3.2mil. Premises
Revealing its financial first-quarter results, NBN Co says it now has 1.4 million active end-users and another 3.2 million premises ready for... Read More
Foxtel Launches NBN Service
Foxtel, jointly owned by Telstra and Rupert Murdoch’s News Group, has begun offering National Broadband Network services – though at this stage... Read More
Google “Pauses” Fibre Rollout In The US
Google has suspended plans to rollout their high-speed internet service Fiber in 10 major US cities, with around nine per cent of... Read More
Korean Telco Delivers 52.5Gbps
South Korean telco SK Broadband has connected residents in an apartment block in Seoul with a broadband service over fibre that can... Read More
NBN Gives Telstra ‘Gift Of Urgency’
The revenue lost from the NBN, and the promise made for winning contracts will usher a “gift of certainty and urgency”, Stephen... Read More
Internet Australia Calls For ACCC To Re-Examine NBN
Internet Australia has called on the ACCC to take a long hard look at the NBN as part of its communications market... Read More
Telstra Unveils Pitt St. Exchange
Telstra has thrown open the doors to its new broadcast operations centre (BOC) in Sydney’s Pitt Street exchange. The centre hosts and... Read More
NBN Latest: Total Cost Down – But $10 Billion Still To Find
Nearly two thirds of Australian premises are now either in design, construction or able to order an NBN service, NBN Co has... Read More
Money Problems To Come, But NBN Co Beats Its Targets
NBN Co chief executive Bill Morrow, pictured, was able to heave a sigh of relief yesterday after releasing figures showing more than... Read More
Google Goes Quiet On Fibre, Looks To 1Gbps Wireless System
In a decision that will doubtless be closely examined by the boffins at Australian’s NBN Co, Google appears to be scaling down... Read More
Lightning Offers NBN Alternative
Lightning Broadband is deploying a wireless network that it claims delivers fibre-like download speeds to suburban users as it goes head-to-head against... Read More
NBN HFC Up In Beetson Territory
After many delays, the NBN company has opened its first hybrid fibre coaxial (HFC) area to commercial services, inviting retail service providers... Read More
Election: The Issue No-One Raised
Neither Bill Shorten nor Malcolm Turnbull gave the NBN or the general connection of Australia to the digital world a mention in... Read More
iiNet Trials NBN Hybrid Fibre
Internet provider iiNet is readying two sites for trials of NBN’s hybrid fibre-coaxial cable to see if it is up to par... Read More
COMMENT: Why NBN Boss is Right & Hysterical Socialist Journalists Are Wrong
I have dealt with NBN chairman Ziggy Switkowski firstly at Kodak, where he was CEO and then when he was the CEO... Read More
Fibre Now Fastest Growing Internet Connection In Oz
The growth rate in the number of Internet subscribers in Australia has slowed to a crawl of about one percent per year,... Read More
Rollout Problems? NBN Co Hits Back At Report
NBN Co has hit back following a media report today that the national broadband network is facing rising costs and delays. An... Read More
TPG Could To Strip Millions Of Prime Customers Away From NBN
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission announced in September that TPG had not violated anti-cherry-picking rules with its rollout of fibre to... Read More
Labor’s Gold Plated NBN Panned New Version Delivers $18B Economic Boost Vs Labors $2B
Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull last night released the first ever cost-benefit analysis of Australia’s largest infrastructure project a review that former Stephen... Read More
Body Corporates Object To TPG SmartHouse Fibre Highjack Strategy
TPG Telecom was planning to extend its fibre network to half a million apartment blocks in the hope that they could get... Read More
Telstra Will Be NBN Core Player, Pilot FTTN: Report
The nation’s biggest telco is to commence a fibre-to-the node (FTTN) pilot on the NBN later this year, reports Fairfax Media. The Telstra... Read More
No Limits! AusBBS All-U-Can-Eat NBN $90
One of the new telcos to spawn from the NBN, AusBBS (Australian Broadband Services) has revealed new “unlimited” plans for fibre connections,... Read More
Quigley: ‘No Crazy NBN Power Bills’
NBN Co boss Mike Quigley today said claims by the New South Wales Government that the NBN rollout would lead to a... Read More
NBN Invades NSW, Round II
Click to enlarge Wollongong, Illawarra, Taree and Mudgee are all to get the NBN fibre treatment as the project’s expansion continues over... Read More
Hello IPTV: NBN Deliver HD, 4K Video
LG UDTV. ‘4K’ or ‘ultra high definition television’ channels will soon be a reality in Oz, thanks to multicast technology being integrated... Read More
Dipper & Boomer’s NBN Game
Click to enlarge Melbourne played host to a NBN backed Grand Final training session earlier today, which saw Hawthorn legend and Brownlow... Read More
Turnbull Attacks NBN, Promises ‘Plan B’
Click to enlarge To this end, he released a broadband survey today, which probes the speed of Australia’s broadband services. “We want... Read More
“Unlimited”: TPG ‘All U Can Eat’ NBN $69
Priced at $69 per month, the seemingly too good to be true 12 month bundle promises “unlimited downloads” and will be a... Read More
NBN Delays, “Crisis” Looms: Turnbull
Click to enlarge Several new housing estates across the country have been waiting months for the $37.4 bn National Broadband Network’s fibre... Read More
$40 bn NBN Cost To Spiral Under Libs?
According to SMH, who has seen a draft of the speech the NBN Co. Chairman will give to a forum on ‘Australia’s... Read More
Google Push The Internet To Its Limits With NBN-Like Rollout
Google hasn’t revealed how much money it’s spending on the optical fibre rollout through the two-state Kansas City region, but bypassing locally... Read More
NBN ‘Hell For Leather’ Tower Plans
Click to enlarge If NBN Co have their way, that is. The councils, located in rural areas of Central West and Western... Read More
Its Live! NBN Hits More Tassies
Click to enlarge Almost 4000 more Tassie residents can now receive super fast broadband of “up to” 100 Mbps following the completion... Read More
NBN Lovechild to Hit 2012
Click to enlarge Aussie’s new telco, Australian Broadband Services (Ausbbs), the first of many companies to spawn from... Read More
NBN ‘Call Me’ Centre Hits Goldie
Click to enlarge NBN Co announced its new customer contact centre will be located at Varsity Lakes, Gold Coast and will begin... Read More
NBN Invasion: 3.5 M Premises Hit ‘By 2015’
Click to enlarge Construction on $36bn NBN will be “underway or complete” hitting 3.5 million homes and businesses in every state as... Read More
NEC In, Huawei Out: Japan Giant Nabs NBN Deal
Click to enlarge The company signed the Wholesale Broadband Agreement with NBN Co today, clearing the path to expand its high-speed wholesale... Read More
Huawei Begs NBN Mercy On Cyber War Fears
The Labour government has refused the Shenzhen based telecoms giant any of the multiple million dollar contracts for construction of the $36... Read More
Tassie To Get Full Throttle NBN
Visionstream Australia, part of the Leighton group, has been awarded the contract to replace copper telephone lines with the high-speed fibreoptic broadband... Read More
Hello High Speed: NBN Full Throttle Hits Tas
Click to enlarge NBN Co has finalised its $300m agreement for the construction of the National Broadband Network (NBN) in Tasmania, it... Read More
