A full-fibre national broadband network would have cost much more, possibly as much as an extra $40 billion, but it will have to be built some time as it is the only technology that can do the heavy lifting Australia will need into the future, the head of a small ISP claims.
Source: iTWire
For six days last year, China Telecom appears to have deliberately diverted Australian internet traffic to China and logged as a routing error.
Source: SMH
Melbourne-based unlimited NBN retail service provider Mungi has gone into voluntary administration just a year after it was created.
Source: iTnews Australia
Groups representing copyright holders and one of the entertainment companies that has spearheaded use of an existing anti-piracy law have strongly backed proposed changes to Australia’s site-blocking regime.
Source: Computerworld
NBN Co is being encouraged by a parliamentary committee to move beyond Layer 2 services on both the satellite and fixed wireless portions of its network.
Source: iTnews Australia
A parliamentary inquiry into the roll out of the National Broadband Network in regional and rural areas has called on the government to update the modelling used to underpin a levy scheme that has been dubbed an ‘NBN tax’.
Source: ARN
The Australian Labor Party has expressed concern over the state of the fixed-wireless service offered by the NBN Co and identified in the second report of the Joint Standing Committee on the NBN as likely to be due to congestion.
Source: iTWire
The Australian Parliament's Joint Standing Committee into the NBN has recommended that the government update the modelling of its proposed regional broadband levy, in order to reflect the cost increases since the original modelling in 2015.
Source: iTWire
The Australian Labor Party has, predictably, slammed the Federal Government for avoiding any mention of what it calls "inconvenient metrics" in the NBN Co's first-quarter results which were announced on Monday.
Source: iTWire
NBN should introduce its business-grade satellite project, address fixed-wireless congestion, and update its regional broadband levy amounts before passing legislation, the joint standing committee has recommended.
Source: ZDNet Australia
NBN has reported revenue up 50 percent to AU$620 million for the first quarter of FY19, alongside a 65 percent improvement in earnings.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Digital Lifecycle Group's subsidiary CDRU has become the latest advisory firm to join the NBN Co's channel program as the network begins its national migration.
Source: ARN
Telecommunications consultant Costs Down Revenue Up (CDRU), a subsidiary of the Digital Lifecycle Group (DLG), has announced it has become one of the first advisory groups in Australia to be accredited as part of the NBN Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Channel Program.
Source: iTWire
NBN Co is hoping its growing focus on the business market will contribute “around half” of the overall average revenue per user (ARPU) uplift it is targeting by 2022.
Source: iTnews Australia
Poor Stephen Rue. Having been handed the equivalent of a shit sandwich by his illustrious predecessor Bill Morrow, all that the new chief executive of NBN Co can is to pony up when the company's quarterly results are due and go through the motions.
Source: iTWire
The NBN Co, the company rolling out Australia's national broadband network, has made no progress on raising the average revenue per user, which remains stuck on $44, the same as that recorded for full-year 2018, even though other metrics have shown an increase.
Source: iTWire
Smart criminals will avoid using systems with the ability to be tapped, Internet Australia chair Dr Paul Brooks has said.
Source: ZDNet Australia