Broadband News
Mon, 23rd May 2016
Internet not working? Try again tomorrow, Telstra tells customers
Telstra customers who have been without internet access for days have been told they might have to wait another 24 hours until they are reconnected.
Source: SMH
iHeartRadio Australia hearts Optus customers with exclusive live content
Promising to ‘bring audiences closer than ever before to the music they love’, iHeartRadio Australia’s deal with Optus means access to ‘a series of unrivalled live events with exclusive artists experiences and content.’
Source: iTWire
Woolworths Mobile launches three new ‘simple phone bundle’ plans
Promising ‘greater value’ through three new phone bundle plans featuring Samsung phones, supposedly ’at supermarket prices.’
Source: iTWire
Telstra: Friday outage caused by device fault; Sunday outage by 'faulty hardware'
Telstra has added to its network woes with a brace of outages on Friday and Sunday, with the first due to a device fault between network and modems and the second to faulty hardware.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Thin-skinned NBN succeeds in throwing spotlight on Turnbull decisions
For a company that accepts criticism with all the grace of a steel hammer hit right between the eyes, the NBN has found itself, and by extension Malcolm Turnbull, in the spotlight thanks to its own decisions.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Telstra proposes changes to NBN migration plan
Telstra has proposed varying its NBN migration plan which sets out how the telco will progressively migrate telephone and internet services from its copper and HFC networks to the National Broadband Network as it is rolled out.
Source: iTWire
Sun, 22nd May 2016
Telstra outages – modem firmware problems?
iTWire has received a tip from an anonymous source over the weekend that claims that Telstra's horror run of outages in 2016 stems from bad firmware in Telstra supplied modems.
Source: iTWire
Are NBN police raids an attack on press freedom?
“The raids are a heavy-handed and over-the-top response to media stories which have embarrassed the government."
Source: ARN
Fifield says NBN management decided to refer leaks to AFP
Communications minister Senator Mitch Fifield says that he did not request that NBN refer to the Australian Federal Police a series of embarrassing leaks of internal documents.
Source: Computerworld
Fri, 20th May 2016
Turnbull 'going after whistleblowers' on NBN leaks: Shorten
The government is preventing the media from being free to report the truth about the NBN by referring the matter to the AFP, the opposition leader has said.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Internet Australia Says Internet Is An Essential Service
Surprise! The country’s most outspoken body representing Aussie ‘net users says that access to the internet is important. Moreso, Internet Australia says that access to data services should be officially recognised as a indelible part of the Universal Service Obligation that already covers telecommunications access.
Source: Gizmodo
The NBN’s Police Witch Hunt Highlights The Need To Scrap Australia’s Draconian Leaking Laws
Opinion: Two years. That’s the amount of jail time facing the person or people who leaked in February damaging documents demonstrating Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s National Broadband Network was facing mounting delays and rising costs.
Source: Gizmodo
NBN leaks: Journalist union slams AFP raids
The journalists' union has condemned as an attack on press freedom raids staged overnight by the Australian Federal Police.
Source: Computerworld
Disgruntled Telstra customers take to social media after another outage
Disgruntled Telstra customers take to social media to vent their frustrations over another network outage affecting services around the country.
Source: ABC News
Telstra suffers ADSL and NBN outage
Customers of Telstra have yet again been hit by an outage, this time to ADSL and NBN services across much of the nation.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Telstra NBN and ADSL outrages on 18, 19 and 20 May
Somewhere around the witching hour on Wednesday, goblins and demons found Telstra ADSL and NBN black boxes and wielded powerful black magic.
Source: iTWire
NBN leak raids: AFP Commissioner rejects claims of political interference
Australian Federal Police commissioner Andrew Colvin has denied suggestions that its decision to conduct a raid overnight on a Melbourne office of Labor Senator Stephen Conroy was subject to political influence.
Source: Computerworld
Police raid Labor Party offices in Melbourne following alleged NBN leaks
AFP raid Labor Party offices in Melbourne, following allegations of National Broadband Network (NBN) document leaks.
Source: ARN
What are the major parties' plans for the NBN?
Few public policy issues are as complex, confounding and contested as the National Broadband Network.
Source: ABC News
Thu, 19th May 2016
iiNet email outage caused by software bug
A software bug caused iiNet's email outage, with the resulting high number of calls to the contact centre then bringing down that system.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Virgin Mobile back up after outage
Customers on the Virgin Mobile network complained of being unable to make voice calls on Thursday morning, with the telco saying it has now restored services.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Telstra ups live sports offering with netball broadcast rights
Telstra will compete with Optus on live sport broadcasts by adding the national netball league to its digital rights stable, with the Telstra TV also due to break the 200,000 user mark in June.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Wed, 18th May 2016
Telstra launches Telstra Mail email service
Telstra is moving away from Microsoft-based email services with its revamped Telstra Mail system, providing double the storage.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Music industry delays piracy site blocking battle
Music industry representatives have successfully delayed an application asking Australian internet service providers to block access to torrent directory Kickass Torrents so they can wait for the outcome of another case involving film studios.
Source: iTnews Australia
iiNet email, voice calls down throughout Australia
Customers of TPG-owned internet service provider iiNet have been unable to access email and voice calls since this morning following a nationwide disruption.
Source: iTnews Australia
UNE, AARNet gigabit fibre link to Taree goes live
The University of New England has switched on a new AARNet gigabit fibre connection between its main Armidale campus and its study centre in Taree, NSW.
Source: iTnews Australia
iiNet reports nationwide outage for email, voice, contact centre
iiNet's email, voice, and contact centres are experiencing an outage across Australia.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Music industry happy with less stringent website blocking in pirate fight
A group of music labels and licensing organisation APRA AMCOS are seeking a more limited form of website blocking than Foxtel and Village Roadshow in their efforts to curb piracy.
Source: Computerworld
Tue, 17th May 2016
NBN satellite receives 3,000 orders for service
Just under three weeks since beginning to offer services, around 3,000 people have ordered services across NBN's long-term satellite solution.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Nokia Bell Labs: ‘world-first’ 10Gbps symmetrical data speeds over DOCSIS 3.1 cable
Nokia Bell Labs’ XG-CABLE proof-of-concept has demonstrated the feasibility of 10 Gbps Full Duplex DOCSIS 3.1 laid out by CableLabs on traditional HFC cable - do you feel the need for speed?
Source: iTWire