Broadband News
Tue, 05th Sep 2017
NBN denies 'margin squeeze' through CVC
Asking NBN to lower its CVC pricing is requiring it to fund the 'race to the bottom' on broadband pricing, it has argued, when RSPs could instead be focusing on quality rather than grabbing market share.
Source: ZDNet Australia
NBN Co's HFC cable rollout hits a speed bump
Problems surrounding the connecting of consumers to the NBN via HFC cable have led to the NBN Co, the company rolling out Australia's national broadband network, changing the way it provides these connections.
Source: iTWire
Telstra responds to video growth with new mobile entertainment, data pack offers
Telstra has unveiled new post-paid and pre-paid mobile plans as it moves to put the focus on data and entertainment packages in the wake of what the telco says is 40% growth in video traffic every year.
Source: iTWire
Mobile provider OVO bids to provide an NBN alternative
Australia's fixed broadband speeds never do the nation proud. Mobile speeds, however, are among the best. But the one thing that prevents people depending on mobile accounts for their Internet use is data quotas.
Source: iTWire
Mon, 04th Sep 2017
No limits on telcos as slice of 5G spectrum auctioned
Australia’s four mobile operators will soon have a chance to snap up some spectrum to advance their 5G plans.
Source: iTnews Australia
Mobile telcos must provide 24-hour power backup in bushfire areas: Xenophon Team
Mobile carriers could be forced to ensure their base stations have 24 hours of backup standby power in high-risk bushfire areas under legislation proposed by the Nick Xenophon Team.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Subsea cable outage affects iiNet, Internode services
The SMW3 subsea cable between Perth and Singapore that services South East Asia, among other regions, has suffered a break with a repair date at least six weeks away.
Source: iTWire
NBN Co says it may not overbuild all FTTN
NBN Co has indicated it might not pursue a complete overbuild of its fibre-to-the-node network in future, and may instead limit any deployment of fibre deeper into its network to areas of latent demand.
Source: iTnews Australia
Fri, 01st Sep 2017
Australians willing to pay for better broadband: NBN
A survey has shown 40 percent of consumers would be willing to pay AU$12 extra per month for 'better' broadband, according to NBN CEO Bill Morrow, who hopes uptake will increase beyond 25Mbps.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Labor slams Turnbull over 'pricey, delayed NBN'
Labor's shadow communications minister Michelle Rowland has slammed Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull over what she says is a 3½-year delay in completing the rollout of the national broadband network at a cost claimed to be $20 billion over budget.
Source: iTWire
Thu, 31st Aug 2017
NBN reduces peak funding to AU$51b
NBN has decreased the total number of premises in Australia by 200,000 and reduced peak funding to AU$51 billion at maximum, reducing its FttN footprint and increasing those covered by HFC.
Source: ZDNet Australia
NBN Co and positive customer experience: never the twain shall meet
The NBN Co makes nice PowerPoint slides whenever it creates the corporate plans that it intends to use as a means of telling the world that all is well at headquarters.
Source: iTWire
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