If the National Broadband Network (NBN) can’t meet all of its stated goals and obligations once the rollout is complete, the ability for Australians to access affordable and high-quality services over the network may be “negatively affected”. This is according… Read More ›
Thaicom-owned rural and regional satellite internet service provider IPSTAR Broadband has launched a new unmetered and non-speed-restricted broadband option dubbed Sky Muster Plus, providing data for essential services such as emails, general browsing, social media and PC and smartphone software… Read More ›
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is calling on the NBN Co and RSPs to take action on the 12.4% of Australian broadband subscribers who are still facing underperforming broadband services. The ACCC’s Measuring Broadband Australia report found that, while broadband… Read More ›
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has fined seven telcos a combined total of $88,200 for failing to comply with rules aimed at ensuring consumers receive adequate information about their National Broadband Network (NBN) services. Telechoice, My Net Fone,… Read More ›
NBN Co, the company rolling out Australia’s national broadband network has named Will Irving as its Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer. With less than twelve months of intensive construction left, NBN Co said Irving’s depth of corporate experience and leadership… Read More ›
The newly minted UK Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, has doubled down on his campaign promise to ensure all UK households can get full fibre broadband connections by 2025. During his first round of Prime Minister Questions (PMQs), Mr Johnson committed to “accelerat[ing]… Read More ›
Australia’s Minister for Communications Paul Fletcher has doubled down on comments he made rejecting the idea that a sale of the National Broadband Network (NBN) to Telstra, or indeed any telecommunications retailer, would be possible under current legislation In an… Read More ›
Sydney-based telecoms carrier Vertel has teamed with Virtutel to resell NBN Enterprise Ethernet services throughout regional Australia. Vertel – which billed Virtutel as an Australian-owned and operated full-service domestic and international telco carrier – said that under the partnership it… Read More ›
NBN Co, the company rolling out the Australian National Broadband Network (NBN), has launched the raft of discount business bundles it first flagged last year, along with a new online service to help match businesses with the products most relevant… Read More ›
NBN will release an industry-wide wholesale pricing review consultation paper to some 50 retail service providers selling NBN plans to residential and business customers, and special interest groups such as ACCAN. According to NBN, the consultation paper will seek industry feedback… Read More ›
Australians are losing more money to NBN scams, with reported monthly losses hitting the A$110,000 mark between January and May this year, compared with around A$38,500 in monthly average losses throughout 2018 – jumping nearly 300 per cent. “People aged over… Read More ›
At least 10,000 Telstra contractors are expected to be cut over the next two years as part of the telco’s far-reaching T22 transformation program, according to the company’s CEO Andy Penn. “By June 30 we expect to have announced around… Read More ›
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has released a new guideline for NBN fixed wireless customers facing broadband speed problems, and has updated its advice for retailers on advertising broadband speed claims. Customers on fixed wireless networks, for the most… Read More ›
More than 5.2 million Australian households are now connected to the NBN, with almost 60 per cent subscribed to higher speed plans, according to the ACCC’s latest quarterly Wholesale Market Indicators Report, released today. The report shows that NBN residential broadband… Read More ›
MAIN STORY Suggestions that Australia’s fixed line broadband data dominance is set to play second fiddle to mobile broadband services might need a reality check, with wireless broadband accounting for just three percent of the total data downloaded in the… Read More ›
NBN Co, the company building and upgrading Australia’s broadband network, is looking to make US$1 billion revenue from its business segment, as it seeks to lure more service providers to offer business-grade NBN, according to data and analytics company GlobalData. While… Read More ›
The board of NBN Co has comprehensively failed in its core mission and should resign to allow an incoming government to save the project, according to Commpete, the Australian alliance for competition in digital communication. Commpete said the NBN board… Read More ›