Broadband News
Thu, 31st Aug 2017
NBN Co corporate plan: no change in fibre-copper mix
NBN Co has no plans to increase the number of premises that receive fibre-to-the kerb (or curb as the company calls it) and these will not increase beyond a million as it has already specified.
Source: iTWire
Why selling NBN like it's ADSL makes no sense
NBN Co’s annual corporate plan delivery is always slightly chaotic: once again, 74 pages of financials and projections on one of Australia’s most important projects.
Source: iTnews Australia
NBN Co warns limbo premises to peak at 400k
NBN Co has warned that the number of premises without serviceable fixed-line connections will get worse before it gets better, peaking at 400,000 this financial year.
Source: iTnews Australia
NBN Co raises expected FTTC cost to $2900
NBN Co is already expecting the cost per premises in its forthcoming fibre-to-the-curb footprint to increase by $100 on earlier forecasts, topping $2900.
Source: iTnews Australia
NBN looks beyond the National Broadband Network rollout
NBN chief executive Bill Morrow today laid out some of the government-owned company’s key forecasts through to 2021: A key date for NBN as it completes the transition from overseeing network construction to focusing on its future as a network wholesaler.
Source: Computerworld
NBN reseller “land-grab” hampers profit projections
nbn's CEO, Bill Morrow, has put NBN resellers on alert, claiming that customer “land-grabs” are hampering efforts to raise the company's average revenue per user.
Source: ARN
Wed, 30th Aug 2017
Queenslander pays AU$200k for NBN fibre
NBN's technology choice program has seen one person pay more than AU$200,000 to have their fixed-wireless connection replaced with full fibre.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Vocus confirms subsea cable outage
Vocus has confirmed that the SMW3 subsea cable between Perth and Singapore is experiencing an outage thanks to a cable break, with an expected repair date of mid October.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Optus, Seven Network extend satellite contract
Optus Satellite has extended its services contract for a further four years with the Seven television network for transponder capacity on the Optus D1 satellite.
Source: iTWire
Telstra's NSW users suffer internet problems
Telstra suffered a domain name server (DNS) outage in NSW with a wide range of users reporting connectivity issues beginning around 5am.
Source: iTnews Australia
Aussie internet pain after Asian subsea cables cut
Australian internet service providers are warning users to expect increased traffic latency for the next six weeks after twin typhoons broke a number of subsea links between Sydney and Hong Kong.
Source: iTnews Australia
Bad weather hits subsea cables
iiNet has warned customers to expect slower Internet speeds and increased latency and packet-loss to international destinations in Asia after a number of sub-sea links between Australia and Hong Kong were severed due severe weather.
Source: Computerworld
nbn douses Telstra’s $5B future infrastructure income sell-off plan
nbn withholds consent for Telstra’s plan to sell-off $5 billion worth of future infrastructure income.
Source: ARN
Tue, 29th Aug 2017
ACCAN pressures Optus, Vodafone to follow Telstra with ban on 3rd party charges
Telecommunications consumer interest group ACCAN is pressuring Optus and Vodafone to follow Telstra and ban third party mobile subscriptions.
Source: iTWire
Telstra ditches third-party billing for subscriptions
Telstra has decided to stop allowing third-party subscription-based content providers to charge for their products from the telco's customer bills, following long-time problems with the practice.
Source: iTnews Australia
Challenger ISPs scrap for tiny NBN market share
Australia’s top internet service providers continue to control 87 percent of the NBN market, but the number of challengers scrapping for what’s left has more than doubled in just one year.
Source: iTnews Australia
Mon, 28th Aug 2017
Amaysim eyes fibre partnerships with Telstra, Vocus
Amaysim is in discussions with providers to expand its fibre reach across the country, while also planning to connect directly to some of NBN's 121 POIs this year.
Source: ZDNet Australia
ISP chief outlines plan for easy NBN upgrades
The head of an Internet service provider in Tasmania has outlined a method whereby, he claims, the current crop of NBN users who are on copper can be upgraded to all-fibre connections without any upfront payment.
Source: iTWire
Amaysim's first NBN users buck trend for high-speed plans
Amaysim has built an NBN subscriber base of “3000-plus” customers in its first four months offering NBN plans of its own, with up to one-third opting for the highest speed plans.
Source: iTnews Australia
Telcos To Act On NBN Nightmare Migrations
With the nationwide rollout half over, NBN and its cohorts finally concede they need to do more to help Australians trapped in broadband hell.
Source: Gizmodo
Amaysim’s NBN play pays off despite broadband business loss
Amaysim has seen NBN customers surge, but the company's broadband business returned a $2.6 million underlying loss for the year.
Source: ARN
NBN Co justifies use of FttN for Sydney Botanical Gardens
NBN Co, the company rolling out Australia's national broadband network, says it was forced to use fibre-to-the-node technology to connect Sydney's Royal Botanical Gardens because of the heritage listing of the 30-hectare site.
Source: iTWire
Fri, 25th Aug 2017
NBN admits customers in new properties facing 'unacceptable' delays
The company rolling out the NBN is reviewing the way it connects newly built properties to the network after conceding customers are facing "unacceptable" and "lengthy" delays.
Source: ABC News
Thu, 24th Aug 2017
NBN: govt doing everything but what is needed
As the hum of complaints about the NBN grew and grew, reaching a shrill pitch, it was only to be expected that the government would react; each NBN user represents at least one vote in its reckoning.
Source: iTWire
ACCC broadband monitoring scheme has been flooded with applicants
The ACCC already has 7400 internet users vying for half as many spots on its forthcoming broadband performance monitoring program.
Source: iTnews Australia
Wed, 23rd Aug 2017
ACCC should try explaining NBN speeds to grandma
Only a bureaucrat would think 'standard plus evening speed' is an informative label.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Vocus revenue nears $2B
Vocus has published its audited full year results reporting revenue for the 2017 financial year of $1.82 billion, up 119 per cent from the previous year.
Source: ARN
NBN hooks up 6 million homes and businesses
Some 6 million households and businesses are able to connect to the National Broadband Network, NBN announced this morning.
Source: Computerworld
ACS subsea cable to go live mid-2018 as Vocus announces AU$1.5b net loss
Despite adding a link to Christmas Island, Vocus is predicting that its ASC subsea cable will be live by July 2018, ahead of competitor systems Trident and Indigo.
Source: ZDNet Australia
The NBN rollout has failed. Here's how we fix it
The National Broadband Network has been reduced to an engineering project mired in politics, but a first generation of "telecommunication planners" could fix it, writes Tooran Alizadeh.
Source: ABC News