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NBN Co Hires New Team In Bid To Fix Sky Muster Debacle

Computer Daily News March 21, 2017 No Comments

NBN Co will expand its team of engineers and architects overseeing the troubled Sky Muster satellite service. Initially reports say it plans to hire around 10 new engineers and “solution…

Rent.com.au Lets You Search For Rental Properties With NBN

Computer Daily News March 17, 2017 No Comments

ASX-listed rental property Web site Rent (rent.com.au) has added information on NBN availability to all its property listings. When a renter searches for property in their chosen suburb they can…

Storage Issues Hit Microsoft’s Azure Cloud Service

Jon Bragg March 16, 2017 No Comments

Microsoft said that storage issues are affecting Azure services in the Eastern United States, after earlier issues affected its cloud-based services globally. As originally reported by VentureBeat, Microsoft said that a subset…

Optus Blames NBN And Government For Early Disconnections

Jon Bragg March 15, 2017 No Comments

Optus is reportedly switching off the phone and cable broadband connections of its customers without warning, as the telco continues to push customers off its HFC network and onto the NBN. An…

St George Goes Down – Again

Computer Daily News March 15, 2017 No Comments

St George bank – these days part of the Westpac empire – had its second outage in a week yesterday. Attempts to log on to Internet banking were greeted with…

NBN Co Looks At Skinny Fibre As Future Replacement For FttN

Computer Daily News March 13, 2017 No Comments

In what appears to be a major switch in policy, an NBN Co executive has said the company may use so-called skinny fibre to upgrade its fibre-to-the-node (FttN) areas to…

Musk Offers Mate Rates For SA E-Storage System

Computer Daily News March 13, 2017 No Comments

Challenged by Atlassian co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes, US technology pusher Elon Musk has offered to install sufficient Tesla batteries to fix at least a major part of South Australia’s energy delivery…

Wi Fi Could Become Obsolete Claims Experts

David Richards March 10, 2017 No Comments

As the NBN gets rolled out to more homes and businesses, and as carriers start to deliver “Unlimited” mobile data packages due in part by an increased demand for streamed…

Oz Lags Behind Global Internet Speeds

Jon Bragg March 10, 2017 No Comments

Australia has dropped to 51st place in Akamai’s quarterly ranking of global internet speeds. Despite the rollout of the NBN, which is expected to reach the halfway point by midyear,…

Data Usage Surges In Latest ACCC Report

Jon Bragg March 8, 2017 No Comments

Data downloads in Australia surged 69% on mobile services and 52% on fixed broadband in 2015-2016, driven by increased usage of streaming, cloud services and content-rich websites. In its annual report…