Broadband News
Thu, 17th May 2018
Telstra shares are in the dumps. What can save the company's profits?
Telstra's shares are at seven-year lows as the NBN and growing mobile competition erode its once hefty profit margins. But analysts say there is one hope to turn the company's profits around, writes Andrew Robertson.
Source: ABC News
Telstra ad battle: Optus told to hold off on 'best mobile network' claims
Australia's second largest telecommunications company, Optus, will have to take a second-row seat behind Telstra for a while in the claims race for being the best mobile network in the country, with a judge yesterday telling the telco it would have to hold off on ads pushing this claim.
Source: iTWire
Wed, 16th May 2018
NBN Co to get new corporate affairs boss in July
NBN Co, the company building Australia's national broadband network, has appointed former Jobs for NSW advocacy director Felicity Ross as its new corporate affairs lead from 18 July.
Source: iTWire
NBN: More to be done on HFC remediation
NBN is implementing two new HFC optimisation works from the pit to the exchange and from the pit to the home.
Source: ZDNet Australia
NBN Co takes conservative path to new HFC release
NBN Co has implemented two new work streams to tackle its HFC technical issues as it takes a tentative approach to releasing new services via the technology.
Source: ARN
Tue, 15th May 2018
NBN looks to 'proactive' network health with machine learning
Using machine learning and big data analytics, NBN is able to be 'proactive' rather than reactive in repairing network issues across modem and cable before the end user even notices, the company has said.
Source: ZDNet Australia
NBN using machine learning to proactively tackle network faults
NBN says it will employ machine learning to help it analyse the 38 terabytes of network health and performance data it gathers every day in order to take a proactive approach to mitigating faults across the collection of broadband technologies it is rolling out across Australia.
Source: Computerworld
Mon, 14th May 2018
Telstra shares slump amid profit warning and 'challenging conditions'
Telstra shares slide as it warns investors to brace for a profit at the lower end of its guidance range, but remains committed to a 22-cent total dividend payment.
Source: ABC News
Telstra admits its role under NBN is hurting
Telstra appears to have been caught off-guard by the level of competition brought about by the NBN, forecasting financial pain as a result extending into 2019.
Source: iTnews Australia
Telstra feels financial pain from NBN rollout, competitive pressure
Telstra CEO Andy Penn has warned of a “difficult trading period ahead” for Telstra, thanks to the “challenging dynamics” created by the roll out of the National Broadband Network.
Source: Computerworld
Fri, 11th May 2018
Perth-Singapore subsea cable is down again
The troubled SEA-ME-WE3 cable connecting Perth and Singapore is down for the third time since August last year.
Source: iTnews Australia
Thu, 10th May 2018
Telstra announces A-League broadcast deal
Telstra will live stream all A-League games via a new app thanks to a sub-licensing deal with Foxtel and Fox Sports.
Source: ZDNet Australia
There are now 143 Gigabit services on the NBN
A new report based on data from NBN includes details on the takeup of super-fast broadband services with speeds far in excess of the usual National Broadband Network downstream limit of 100 megabits per second.
Source: Computerworld
Almost 1M Aussies are using NBN's 50Mbps speed offering
Nearly one million Australian customers are using the National Broadband Network's 50Mbps speed product.
Source: ARN
NBN's FttC network reaches 18K premises
NBN has reported Q3 EBITDA of negative AU$389 million on revenue of AU$521 million, with 3.7 million end users.
Source: ZDNet Australia
ACCC lauds speed lift for NBN users, says competition for services increases
The competition watchdog the ACCC says more and more consumers are receiving higher-speed NBN plans and the 50Mbps plan now makes up 26% of all NBN plans, up from just 4.6% in December 2017.
Source: iTWire
NBN Co digs in on 12Mbps 'class war'
NBN Co is digging in on its bid to force 12Mbps fixed-line users up to higher priced products, with the company all but confirming it wants to vacate the tier of broadband users.
Source: iTnews Australia
NBN’s fixed wireless a victim of its own success, Morrow says
The popularity of NBN’s fixed wireless network has meant that the network wholesaler has had to engage in a redesign and upgrade process to deal with capacity issues.
Source: Computerworld
Telstra takes ZTE devices off its shelves
Telstra has stopped selling ZTE mobiles and mobile broadband devices from today, following an export ban imposed on the company in the US which prevents it from buying components from American suppliers.
Source: iTWire
NBN Co losses for year mount to $3.3b as users rise to 3.7m
NBN Co, the company rolling out Australia's national broadband network, has recorded a loss of $3.3 billion in the nine months to March 2018, the third quarter of the current financial year. This compares to a loss of $2.7 billion for the nine months of the previous financial year.
Source: iTWire
TPG to launch six-month free mobile plans
TPG's first mobile customers will be offered six months of free unlimited data, after which it will cost AU$9.99 per month, with the network to be available across Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane, and Adelaide as of Q3-Q4.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Wed, 09th May 2018
NBN resellers told to shift services to permanent POIs
Phone and internet service providers have nine months to transfer their NBN services to the network’s established POIs, as the temporary ones get decommissioned.
Source: ARN
Telstra wants legal clarity to block malicious traffic
Telstra is seeking federal law changes to allow it to rate-limit or block internet traffic that it has “a high degree of confidence” is malicious.
Source: iTnews Australia
Even Stevens pay each other's bills after Telstra mistakes their identities
A mix-up of Telstra's online accounts has resulted in two Steven Whites in different states being merged into one, leading to personal information being shared and the wrong Steven being billed for services.
Source: ABC News
Tue, 08th May 2018
Telstra pushes 5G’s latency advantage
Telstra, in conjunction with Ericsson and Intel, has used a demonstration of online gaming to push the low latency characteristics of 5G wireless as one of the key benefits of the technology.
Source: Computerworld
NBN Co brings cognitive to its network ops
NBN Co is using IBM cognitive technology including Watson as part of a project to automate workflows in its network operations centre.
Source: iTnews Australia
Mon, 07th May 2018
EPL 'has paid off' for Optus: Roy Morgan
Optus's decision to acquire the Australian rights to English Premier League football seems to be having the desired effect, according to new research.
Source: iTWire
Vodafone to axe 100 Hobart jobs in 'devastating blow', Premier says
The telco is holding talks with workers at its Hobart call centre after issuing a statement describing a "dramatic reduction" in call volumes and complaints.
Source: ABC News
Think Mobile wants you to think about the full-speed cost per GB on 'unlimited' plans
If you take up one of the new "unlimited" plans from Vodafone or Telstra, you know that you get at least 40GB of data at full speed before speeds slow to a max of 1.5Mbps, but Think Mobile thinks its plans are still a better deal with 80GB full speed for $48.
Source: iTWire
Govt to inquire into Telstra triple-zero outage
The federal government will conduct an inquiry into the outage suffered by Telstra last week that led to problems with triple zero calls.
Source: iTWire