Broadband News
Wed, 16th Apr 2014
Court slaps TPG with $400k fine over 000 failure
TPG has been fined $400,000 after court action taken by the Australian Communications and Media Authority relating to the telco's failure to provide triple zero access to all of its customers.
Source: Computerworld
NBN Co boss suggests levy for TPG
NBN Co’s new CEO Bill Morrow has suggested the Federal Government apply a levy onto NBN infrastructure competitors like TPG in order to ensure a sustainable economic model in the provision of broadband services to rural customers.
Source: iTnews Australia
NBN Co chief calls for government subsidy to offset cost of rural NBN
NBN Co chief executive, Bill Morrow, has called on the federal government to impose a cross-subsidy or infrastructure levy on competitors to offset to the cost of delivering broadband to rural areas.
Source: ARN
NBN Co hits 105Mbps in limited FTTN trial
NBN Co achieved 105 megabits per second download speeds in a of test of fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) technology at a shop on the New South Wales Central Coast.
Source: Computerworld
Tue, 15th Apr 2014
NBN Co set to tackle TPG head on
Fresh from making sweeping changes to the NBN Co executive team new CEO Bill Morrow is set to fight fire with fire and announce an aggressive fibre-to-the-basement (FTTB) rollout to compete with TPG, which recently announced NBN plans of its own.
Source: iTWire
New NBN Co chief challenges TPG with early rollout
NBN Co has expedited its roll-out of Fibre-to-the-Basement technology in a direct challenge to TPG's attempt to cherrypick value inner-city customers.
Source: ARN
Small businesses divided over NBN benefits
Australian small businesses are split about the NBN and unsure if faster internet speeds will improve their lot.
Source: SMH
NBN Co drops speed guarantees for FTTN service
Australia's national broadband network will come with substantially lower speed guarantees than expected, as part of the Coalition mandated fibre-to-the-node redesign.
Source: iTnews Australia
Mon, 14th Apr 2014
Revealed: NBN Co scales back fibre rollout
NBN Co is now only expecting to roll out fibre to 20 percent of Australia premises, down from the 22 percent in the Coalition's 2013 election policy.
Source: ZDNet Australia
NBN Co may have to pay Telstra $98b
Telstra could be paid over $98 billion by NBN Co over the next 55 years for infrastructure leases and other fees, according to a report in industry publication CommsDay.
Source: SMH
Bot masters in cut-throat DDoS fight
Botnet operators in the criminal underground are launching large denial of service attacks against each other in a bid to knock out rivals in the race to compromise computers.
Source: iTnews Australia
EscapeNet enjoys life as an indie ISP
Australia's Internet service provider market has gone through an extended period of consolidation.
Source: Computerworld
Fri, 11th Apr 2014
TPG's unlimited NBN plans enabled by AAPT buy
As debate rages over TPG competing against NBN Co, TPG has released its unlimited plans for services on NBN Co's network, which the company says were only possible through its large fibre infrastructure assets.
Source: ZDNet Australia
TPG pushes unlimited NBN fibre plans
Internet service provider TPG has launched its National Broadband Network plans, with all six of the offers including unlimited data quotas. The plans are TPG's first NBN offerings; the ISP foreshadowed offering an unlimited NBN data plan in 2012, but it hasn't started to sign up customers for NBN services until now.
Source: Computerworld
TPG releases NBN piggy back plans
TPG has released a range of NBN Internet and home phone bundle plans. Coincidence or good timing?
Source: iTWire
Thu, 10th Apr 2014
NBN Co in surprise executive clean out
Three highly experienced NBN Co executives have been sensationally turfed out of the company following a restructure by new CEO Bill Morrow a mere week after he took over the top job.
Source: iTWire
NBN Co execs out the door: Report
The chief financial officer, chief technology officer and head of corporate and commercial have all left NBN Co, the company charged with rolling out the National Broadband Network, according to a report in the Australian Financial Review.
Source: Computerworld
Turnbull walks away from NBN high ground claims
In one swift move on the fifth birthday of the NBN, Malcolm Turnbull has fallen into the same practice that he accused Labor of for years.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Aussie big business exposed to dangerous 'heartbleed' hole
Twenty of Australia's ASX top 200 organisations are exposed to the dangerous 'heartbleed' vulnerability in OpenSSL revealed this week.
Source: iTnews Australia
Wed, 09th Apr 2014
NBN: Good-bye FTTP, we hardly knew ye
The Coalition government today signed the death warrant for the roll out of a predominantly fibre-to-the-premises-based National Broadband Network.
Source: Computerworld
Costs must be fixed first in piracy solution: Comms Alliance
Australia's peak telecommunications organisation has said ISPs are willing to come to the table on a new deterrence system for online copyright infringement but rights holders have to sort out who will pay for such a system first.
Source: ZDNet Australia
NBN blowouts warned as Turnbull sets new expectations
Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull has said that the wireless network for the NBN was underplanned, with uptake expected to be higher than forecast.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Two Chinese sentenced for bribes in Telstra deal
China has sentenced a former China Mobile executive to death for taking bribes when Telstra acquired two Chinese companies in 2007. Telstra has lost its investment.
Source: iTWire
Turnbull gives NBN Co green light to continue MTM build
NBN shareholder ministers Malcolm Turnbull and Matthias Cormann have given NBN Co the official nod to continue the rollout of the multi-technology mix national broadband network.
Source: iTnews Australia
NBN Co should own copper, HFC networks: Switkowski
The goal of renegotiations with Telstra should see NBN Co own the legacy copper and cable networks, NBN Co chairman Dr Ziggy Switkowski has said.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Big move to faster broadband
There are now over two million Australian households and businesses accessing download speeds of 24 Mbps or greater.
Source: iTWire
Malcolm Turnbull says NBN plan must change or 300,000 will miss out
Major changes to the implementation of the national broadband network will be needed to avoid huge cost blow-outs and up to 300,000 homes missing out on high-speed internet, Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull will warn in a speech on Wednesday.
Source: SMH
Tue, 08th Apr 2014
NBN Co to offer compensation for missed appointments
ISPs will be compensated when NBN Co misses an appointment to hook up a new customer to the service, executive chairman Ziggy Switkowski has revealed.
Source: ZDNet Australia
D-Day approaching for landline switch off, warns NBN chief Ziggy Switkowski
About 19,000 homes and businesses in 15 towns across Australia face having their phone and internet services cut off when copper lines that connect them are switched off in 45 days, National Broadband Network Company chairman Ziggy Switkowski warned on Tuesday.
Source: SMH
ABS registers significant jump in 24Mbps+ connections
The number of Australian Internet connections that deliver a speed of 24 megabits per second or faster grew by more than a quarter between December 2012 and December 2013, according to figures released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
Source: Computerworld