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Friday, 6th December 2013
Telstra gets 300Mbps speeds in expanded LTE-Advanced trial
Telstra has expanded its LTE-Advanced trial to new spectrum bands where the company was able to achieve peak download speeds of 300Mbps.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Senate to explore submarine cable security
A Senate committee will scrutinise planned changes to submarine cable laws in Australia in a bid to shore up security provisions for critical internet cable infrastructure.
Source: iTnews Australia
NBN review released next week, says Turnbull
Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull says he will release the NBN Strategic Review next week. But he did not say how much of it will be released.
Source: iTWire
Thursday, 5th December 2013
Coalition NBN must be a monopoly to survive: NBN Co
Universal price guarantees, ensuring equal prices for regional and urban Australians under Labor's NBN model, could disappear if the government's fibre-to-the-node (FttN) services tried to compete against existing HFC networks, NBN Co has warned.
Source: ZDNet Australia
NBN Co reveals NT and WA wasteland
State-by-state breakdown of NBN Co's rollout statistics reveals the patchwork nature of the network's deployment
Source: ZDNet Australia
NBN Co updates web roll-out information
NBN Co has reactivated roll-out progress on its website.
Source: ARN
AusBBS introduces SOHO NBN plans
Locally-owned startup, Australian Broadband Services (AuSBBS), is targeting small businesses with new National Broadband Network (NBN) plans priced at $100 and $155 per month.
Source: ARN
Wednesday, 4th December 2013
Turnbull agrees to release NBN review
Communications minister Malcolm Turnbull has confirmed he intends to release a copy of the NBN strategic review, though it's expected to be heavily redacted.
Source: iTWire
NBN fibre upgrade 'essential'
NBN Co's long-term profitability will be restricted if the Coalition's proposed mix of cable, copper and fibre networks is not replaced with a full fibre network in coming years, government briefings reveal.
Source: SMH
NBN Co can't guarantee Libs' 50Mbps speed promise: report
The unpredictable performance of VDSL2 technology over Telstra's copper network means that NBN Co would be unable to guarantee customers the 50Mbps speeds promised by the new government, a leaked NBN Co report has warned.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Ookla Net Index delivers verdict on Australian Internet speed
Internet metrics company, Ookla, has ranked Australia 48th for download speed and 96th for upload speed in its most recent Net Index which covers tests recorded on Speedtest.net from June 3, 2011, to December 2, 2013.
Source: ARN
Tuesday, 3rd December 2013
Turnbull to defy Senate order to produce NBN report
Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull has indicated he will not release the NBN Co strategic review on Monday, despite an order from the Senate to do so.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Massive Internode outage affects half of Victoria
A massive hardware fault has taken down service roughly half of Victoria's Internode ADSL customers, with still no ETA on a fix.
Source: iTWire
Nextgen trials 400Gbps Sydney-Canberra link
Nextgen Networks has trialled a 400Gbps link between two data centres in Sydney and Canberra to prove the future scalability of the company's intercapital network.
Source: iTnews Australia
ACCAN supports Telstra's move to kill the CAPTCHA
The Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) is backing Telstra's move to eliminate online CAPTCHA tests from its websites, and is encouraging other companies to follow suit.
Source: ARN