Broadband News
Tue, 16th Apr 2013
Coalition NBN plan provides certainty: Macquarie Telecom
Macquarie Telecom has said the Coalition's NBN announcement is "great news" for businesses because it brings certainty that there will be an NBN if there is a change of government.
Source: Computerworld
Businesses are not prepared for NBN rollout: Macquarie Telecom
Although businesses expect massive change from the NBN, many of them are still underprepared for its effects on their employees and the market share, according to a survey by telecommunications company, Macquarie Telecom.
Source: ARN
NBN construction pay rates 'extremely poor': NSW Business Chamber
The New South Wales Business Chamber has said that it has received complaints from NBN contractors over the pay rates for constructing the fibre network.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Pipe warns NBN Co off mobile backhaul turf
Pipe Networks is warning NBN Co to stay off its turf after suggestions the taxpayer-funded network is considering becoming involved in mobile backhaul.
Source: iTnews Australia
Eftel directors resign
ISP, Eftel has made a number of changes to its board of directors as a result of its acquisition by M2 Telecommunications earlier this year.
Source: ARN
Net capacity down to wire
Australia's submarine fibre-optic links to the world may not be fully utilised at the moment, but more are being built to cater to our insatiable appetite for data and content.
Source: SMH
NBN Co to fast-track more users onto fibre
NBN Co is hoping to fast-track users onto its fibre network by cutting down the wait time for a retail internet service.
Source: iTnews Australia
PIPE opposes NBN entering mobile backhaul market
Fibre backhaul provider PIPE networks has rejected suggestions NBN Co could help provide backhaul for mobile networks, saying it will damage the fibre backhaul industry.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Mon, 15th Apr 2013
NBN will change regardless of government: Analysts
The firm that last month projected what a Coalition government could do with Australia's NBN has said that the project will likely change under either government after September.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Coalition's NBN analysis needs more analysis
The Coalition's background discussion paper on competing NBN policies raises important questions over the current policy, but overlooks some of its own problems.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Poll shows voters prefer Labor's NBN
Labor's national broadband network is more popular than the Coalition's cheaper version, according to the first national poll on the policies.
Source: SMH
Sydney train tunnels get phone reception
Sydney commuters will be able to use their phones and access the internet inside train tunnels on the City Circle line for the first time, after a network infrastructure upgrade.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Turnbull 'knows' Telstra enough to cut copper deal
Opposition communications spokesman Malcolm Turnbull is confident his relationship with Telstra will help the Coalition cut a deal for the copper access required for a future fibre-to-the-node network.
Source: iTnews Australia
Fri, 12th Apr 2013
Court docs detail bitter Kogan, ispONE fight
Kogan Mobile has accused wholesale telco partner ispONE of 'continually' breaching its agreement with the retailer by suspending and flagging Kogan's most active users.
Source: iTnews Australia
NBN and IPTV trial for dental students launches
A trial has been launched at the University of Melbourne’s Shepparton campus which aims to deliver dental education to regional Victoria using high-speed broadband and IPTV.
Source: Computerworld
ACCC braces for poor-performing NBN services
The ACCC is bracing for complaints over the performance of internet and voice services as NBN connections become mainstream.
Source: iTnews Australia
NBN street cabinets 'hideous'
About 60,000 cabinets that look like stretched refrigerators will be installed on footpaths under the Coalition's national broadband network, bringing criticism from urban designers.
Source: SMH
Thu, 11th Apr 2013
ACCC endorses network congestion pricing
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairman Rod Sims has welcomed the suggestion that ISPs begin charging customers for speeds, not just data.
Source: ZDNet Australia
Internode picks up customer satisfaction award, again
National ISP, Internode, has scored its third Canstar Blue Most Satisfied Customers award for Broadband ADSL services following its recent Roy Morgan Research Customer Satisfaction Home Internet Service Provider Award for 2012.
Source: iTWire
M2 buyout of EFTel inches closer
EFTel looks set to be integrated into the business of listed telco M2 Telecommunications after 90 percent of the company's shareholders today indicated they would accept the deal.
Source: iTnews Australia
ACCC head backs Telstra on tiered broadband debate
In a speech delivered today to the Australian-Israel Chamber of Commerce, Rod Sims, the chair of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission endorsed Telstra's Kate McKenzie's call for a debate on tiered pricing for broadband customers based on the quality of service they desired.
Source: Computerworld
Turnbull says copper can do it
In a wide-ranging address at a Sydney conference Malcolm Turnbull has insisted that FTTN and copper cabling can deliver sufficient broadband speeds.
Source: iTWire
Will the Coalition's NBN be better for the bush?
Independent MP Tony Windsor has questioned whether the Coalition's NBN policy will provide better services for rural Australia. He is unimpressed with Opposition assurances.
Source: iTWire
A choice of two NBN's
The national broadband argument and what's on offer has come a long way since Kevin Rudd first put it on the political stage in 2007. At that time, the government promised to spend $4.7 billion on a network that would deliver and guarantee just 12Mbps.
Source: ARN
Wed, 10th Apr 2013
Libs kick NBN policy own-goal, but can Labor convert?
By announcing its policy, the Coalition has finally framed the NBN discussion in more realistic terms. It has also invalidated six years of its own arguments that Labor was spending too much on its NBN.
Source: ZDNet Australia
ACMA issues warnings for TCP code non-compliance
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has issued a formal warning to Activ8me and Sure Telecom for failing to make critical information summaries available (CIS) available to customers.
Source: Computerworld
Slower NBN no good for research: minister
Australian medical and health researchers would be held back in their ability to work with overseas counterparts under the coalition's broadband plan, Health Minister Tanya Plibersek says.
Source: ARN
Coalition takes NBN back to the drawing board
There are many flaws to the alternative plan for a national broadband network delivered by the Coalition yesterday.
Source: iTnews Australia
Coalition NBN plan won't help flats: SCA
Apartment dwellers in urban centres will be the big losers under the federal coalition's high speed national broadband network plan (NBN), the peak body representing strata sector says.
Source: Computerworld
Coalition expects Telstra to hand over copper network
The Federal Opposition says it does not expect to pay Telstra for part of its copper network but the telco may be contracted for maintenance under its broadband internet plan.
Source: ABC News